# Dr. Newton — Call Mr. Fortune character guide

> Dr. Newton in Call Mr. Fortune by H. C. Bailey.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Newton, Colourless Dr. Newton, the late Newton

**First appearance:** 0000-case-i-the-archduke-s-tea

## Snapshot

Dr. Newton is the colourless physician whose death becomes one more thread in the tangle Reggie Fortune must pull apart.

## Who they are

Dr. Newton is a quiet medical man whose life and death sit at the edge of the Lunt case, unremarkable in manner and yet impossible to ignore once he is gone. His profession places him near secrets that patients tell only their doctors, and his death raises the question of what he knew and who needed him silent. Reggie's investigation of Newton's end becomes a test of whether the case's respectable surface can survive the facts underneath.

## In the story

### [Case IV: The Efficient Assassin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/call_mr_fortune_se/chapters/case-iv-the-efficient-assassin)

The family doctor who conspired with Herbert to murder Stephenson Charlecote and later killed Herbert, then committed suicide.

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