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H.C. Bailey's Reggie Fortune and the Golden Age of Detective Fiction
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H.C. Bailey's Reggie Fortune and the Golden Age of Detective Fiction

by Laird R. Blackwell

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 1476670692
ISBN-13 9781476670690
Publisher McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint McFarland & Co Inc
Country of Manufacture US
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Jul 14th, 2017
Print length 188 Pages
Weight 262 grams
Dimensions 15.30 x 22.90 x 2.40 cms
Product Classification: Literary studies: from c 1900 -Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Ksh 9,000.00
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H.C. Bailey's detective Reggie Fortune was one of the most popular protagonists of the Golden Age of detective fiction. Fortune appeared in nine novels yet it was in a series of 84 short stories that were published from 1920 to 1940 where he truly shone, combining elements of several popular archetypes--the eccentric logician, the forensic investigator, the hard-boiled interrogator, the psychological profiler, the defender of justice. This critical study examines the Fortune stories in the context of other popular detective fiction of the era. Bailey's classics are distinguished by well-clued puzzles, brilliant sleuthing, vivid description and social critique, with Fortune evoking images of Don Quixote and the Arthurian Knights in his pursuit of truth and justice in an uncaring world.

H.C. Bailey''s detective Reggie Fortune was one of the most popular protagonists of the Golden Age of detective fiction. Fortune appeared in nine novels yet it was in a series of 84 short stories that were published from 1920 to 1940 where he truly shone, combining elements of several popular archetypes--the eccentric logician, the forensic investigator, the hard-boiled interrogator, the psychological profiler, the defender of justice.

This critical study examines the Fortune stories in the context of other popular detective fiction of the era. Bailey''s classics are distinguished by well-clued puzzles, brilliant sleuthing, vivid description and social critique, with Fortune evoking images of Don Quixote and the Arthurian Knights in his pursuit of truth and justice in an uncaring world.

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