Call Mr. Fortune · Character

Mr. Lomas

The weary Chief of the Criminal Investigation Department, a man much exposed to women and politicians, who leans on Fortune's versatile mind when his own reaches its limits.

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Also known as Lomas, the Hon. Stanley Lomas, Stanley Lomas

First appearance: Case I: The Archduke's Tea

As a supporting figure in Call Mr. Fortune, Mr. Lomas is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.

A police officer who investigates the case and discusses the motives with Reggie after Leopold's death.

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Lomas is a family skeleton-haunted official who confesses his limitations freely and envies Fortune's spirits. His maiden sister runs a princely school at Tormouth where rooms are mysteriously ransacked and photographs stolen, and he wants Fortune to investigate without quite believing it is a real case. Meanwhile Horace Kimball telephones twice a day demanding a scapegoat for a financial scandal, and the whole Government is on Lomas's neck.

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Lunt Family Circle
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.

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Closing

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Mr. Lomas appears across 9 companion beats. Open any chapter in the free preview to see the notes beside the text.

Case I: The Archduke's Tea
A police officer who investigates the case and discusses the motives with Reggie after Leopold's death.
Case IV: The Efficient Assassin
The head of the Criminal Investigation Department who works with Fortune on the case.
Case V: The Hottentot Venus
Reluctantly involves Fortune in his sister's school case; accompanies Fortune to the yacht and is left to explain the affair to his sister.
Case VI: The Business Minister
Consults Reggie about the Great Coal Ramp scandal; involved in the investigation of the faceless corpse.
Phase I: The Scandal
Visits Fortune at home, distressed by the political pressure over the Coal Ramp scandal, considers resigning.
Phase II: The Private Secretary
Hosts the meeting at Scotland Yard, presents the new fact about Sandford's bank deposit, and leads the investigation.
Phase IV: The Charge
Agrees with Reggie about the case's grandeur, refuses to charge Kimball on weak evidence, and finds Reggie's moral intensity surprising.
Phase V: The Reply
Informs Reggie of Sandford's movements; receives the murder report; interviews Sandford and the detectives.
Phase VI: Jane Brown
Dines with Fortune and discusses the Kimball case, later meets Jane Brown.

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