The Dilemma of Doctor Hiley

Sexton Blake is a fictional detective who has been featured in many British comic strips, novels, silent and sound films, radio serials and TV series. The first story 'The Missing Millionaire' appeared in 1893 and from then until 1978 Blake starred in more than 4000 stories. 

The stories were written by about 200 different authors. One of these was Walter Tyrer, and in 1952 he wrote 'The Dilemma of Doctor Hiley'. The story is listed as No. 258 in the Sexton Blake Library (3rd Series) and was published by Amalgamated Press.

Front cover of the book

Ralph Hiley is introduced on page 4

In the story Sexton Blake and his sidekick Tinker help to track down a man who is on the run and infected by a deadly virus. Dr. Hiley and Nurse Joan Schofield look after the man when he is caught and hospitalised and nurse him back to health, but have to spend a period of isolation together afterwards to make sure they have not been infected. They fall in love but Dr. Hiley reveals that he is already married but that his wife Rita left him and he has not seen her for many years. Sexton Blake locates Rita but she is very ill and requires a life-saving operation which is performed by Dr. Hiley. She tells him that after she left him she married another man which means that the doctor and the nurse are now free to marry each other.