I've previously come across H.C. Bailey's Reggie Fortune short stories via their appearances in the British Library Crime Classics anthologies, and I often count them as my favourites when they appear. Reggie Fortune is a medical doctor who becomes a consultant for the police. He often acts childishly, though he has a ruthless streak, and has an odd, elliptical way of speaking. He can seem omniscient at times, which is lucky, as he seems happy to cause justice to occur outside the limits of…