# Call Mr. Fortune — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Call Mr. Fortune by H. C. Bailey.

- [Case I: The Archduke's Tea](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/call_mr_fortune_se/chapters/case-i-the-archduke-s-tea.md): Mr. Reginald Fortune, a young doctor with a comfortable life and a lack of zeal, is left in charge of his father's practice. He is called to attend the Archduke Maurice, who has been found unconscious after a motor accid
- [Case II: The Sleeping Companion](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/call_mr_fortune_se/chapters/case-ii-the-sleeping-companion.md): Dr. Reginald Fortune attends to his patient Birdie Bolton, a music hall performer who complains of troubling dreams. The next morning, Birdie is found murdered, and her companion May Weston is arrested. Reggie investigat
- [Case III: The Nice Girl](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/call_mr_fortune_se/chapters/case-iii-the-nice-girl.md): Dr. Reginald Fortune, a reluctant specialist in the surgery of crime, learns of the murder of Sir Albert Lunt via a club tape machine. He is called in by multiple parties, including Scotland Yard's Lomas and a mysterious
- [Case IV: The Efficient Assassin](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/call_mr_fortune_se/chapters/case-iv-the-efficient-assassin.md): Reginald Fortune is drawn into the murder of Stephenson Charlecote, found stabbed outside his son Geoffrey's Chelsea home. The case involves family estrangement, a secret marriage to an Italian singer, and a suspicious w
- [Case V: The Hottentot Venus](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/call_mr_fortune_se/chapters/case-v-the-hottentot-venus.md): Reginald Fortune is drawn into a peculiar case at a girls' school run by Lomas's sister, Miss Evelyn Lomas, after mysterious disturbances and theft of photographs occur. Fortune discovers a Hottentot Venus figurine left 
- [Case VI: The Business Minister](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/call_mr_fortune_se/chapters/case-vi-the-business-minister.md): Reggie Fortune returns from Spain to a blizzard in London and is immediately drawn into the Great Coal Ramp scandal by Lomas. A faceless corpse is found at Montmorency House, and the investigation reveals connections to 
- [Phase I: The Scandal](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/call_mr_fortune_se/chapters/phase-i-the-scandal.md): Reggie Fortune returns from Spain to a blizzard in London and is immediately drawn into a political scandal by his friend Lomas. The Great Coal Ramp involves insider trading based on leaked government plans to nationaliz
- [Phase II: The Private Secretary](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/call_mr_fortune_se/chapters/phase-ii-the-private-secretary.md): Reggie, Lomas, and Superintendent Bell discuss the mysterious deposit of three thousand pounds into Sandford's bank account, linking him to the Coal Ramp scandal. Horace Kimball, Sandford's chief, is forced to confront S
- [Phase III: The Man Under the Snow](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/call_mr_fortune_se/chapters/phase-iii-the-man-under-the-snow.md): A faceless corpse is discovered in the well of Montmorency House after the snow melts. Reggie Fortune is called to the mortuary by Superintendent Bell, where he examines the body and determines the cause of death: a blow
- [Phase IV: The Charge](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/call_mr_fortune_se/chapters/phase-iv-the-charge.md): Reggie Fortune and Lomas discuss the case as a work of pure art, a crime unstained by greed or sentiment. Lomas and Bell meet with Horace Kimball, whom Reggie questions about a man named Mason (also known as Rand) who wa
- [Phase V: The Reply](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/call_mr_fortune_se/chapters/phase-v-the-reply.md): Reggie Fortune learns that Sandford has traveled to Kimball's estate. Shortly after, news arrives that Kimball has been killed, apparently thrown into a lake by Sandford. Upon investigation, it emerges that Kimball delib
- [Phase VI: Jane Brown](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/call_mr_fortune_se/chapters/phase-vi-jane-brown.md): Reginald Fortune and Lomas investigate the Kimball case, uncovering the backstory of Horace Kimball's obsessive jealousy over his sister Ellen's marriage to Sandford. Jane Brown, revealed to be actress Joan Amber, provid

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