The Man Who Killed Fortescue

When the popular novelist, G.M.C. Anstruther is found

murdered on the top level of an omnibus, Detective Van

Dusen Ormsberry is called in to the case. While

investigating at the home of the deceased, Ormsberry

recognizes the girl fleeing the scene: Joan Archer, the

protagonist of the dramatic Fortescue murder mystery of

the year before; the most disastrously unsuccessful, the

most humiliating case of Mr. Ormsberry's professional

career. Will this be the end of Ormsberry's career, or his

last chance to finally discover who killed John Fortescue?

Originally published in 1928 by Grosset & Dunlap, The

Man Who Killed Fortescue is the first of John Stephen

Strange's many mystery novels. This edition is published

for her great-granddaughters.