Mr Fortune—Books 1-3

By: H. C. Bailey

Narrated by: Graham Scott

Mr Fortune—Books 1-3

By H. C. Bailey

Narrated by Graham Scott

Nineteen tales of murder and mystery in the first three books to feature H.C. Bailey's golden age detective Mr. Reginald 'Reggie' Fortune: surgeon and general practitioner, a man interested in everything, but not in anything in particular, and with a vast store of eclectic knowledge that makes him the ideal man to advise the Criminal Investigation Department of Scotland Yard, and shine a light upon the darkest of deeds...

Public Domain (P)2024 Voices of Today

An unexpectedly outstanding performance of a lesser known classic series

I bought this collection with some misgivings because I've had bad luck with recent audiobook releases of old mystery novels. Some companies seem to think that as long as they have a guy with a British accent reading it, it's good enough. But Graham Scott does more than just read - - he does great voice acting, with appropriate and interesting accents, and it's easy to tell the characters apart by the way they sound (Reggie sounds exactly right - a bit cherubic, a bit puckish).

You can tell that Scott has read each story before and planned how to approach it. I automatically listen for misplaced stress in sentences (I wish I didn't), and even the best narrators do it sometimes, but he has a lower rate than just about anyone.

The stories are, ofc, great, I've read them a million times, Reggie is essentially one of the milder Saki characters turned detective. I'm delighted that they were treated so well in their translation to audiobook.