The Apprehensive Dog: A Reggie Fortune Novel
Published by Doubleday, Doran and Co. Inc, Garden City, NY, 1942
Henry Christopher Bailey
Crime club, 1942 - Detective and mystery stories - 294 pages

Original terra cotta cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First U.S. edition. Published in the UK as NO MURDER (1942). A very good copy with some light shelf wear and mild rubbing at edges and mild sunning to spine panel.

Henry Christopher Bailey (1878 - 1961) was an English author of detective fiction. Bailey wrote mainly short stories featuring a medically-qualified detective called Reggie Fortune. Fortune's mannerisms and speech put him into the same class as Lord Peter Wimsey but the stories are much darker, and often involve murderous obsession, police corruption, financial mischief, child abuse and miscarriages of justice. Although Mr. Fortune is seen at his best in short stories, he also appears in several novels.

A second series character, Josiah Clunk, is a sanctimonious lawyer who exposes corruption and blackmail in local politics, and who manages to profit from the crimes.

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