Max Carrados Complete Adventures The 42 Cases

MAX CARRADOS COMPLETE ADVENTURES (The 42 Cases)MAX CARRADOS, THE EYES OF MAX CARRADOS, MAX CARRADOS MYSTERIES, THE BRAVO OF LONDON by ERNEST BRAMAHThis volume collects MAX CARRADOS' 42 Cases, published originally in 4 collections, by acclaimed English author Ernest Bramah. Max Carrados is a blind detective who uses his remaining senses in such a way that his blindness is often not immediately apparent to others. George Orwell wrote that, together with those of Conan Doyle and R. Austin Freeman, Max Carrados and The Eyes of Max Carrados, "are the only detective stories since Poe that are worth re-reading."This volume contains:MAX CARRADOS, THE EYES OF MAX CARRADOS, MAX CARRADOS MYSTERIES, THE BRAVO OF LONDONErnest Bramah's humorous works were ranked with Jerome K Jerome, and W.W. Jacobs, his detective stories with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H.G. Wells and his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood. George Orwell acknowledged that Bramah's book, What Might Have Been, influenced his Nineteen Eighty-Four. Dorothy Sayers also mention Kai Lung, his other main character, in several of her books.

This volume features ALL MAX CARRADOS ADVENTURES (42 Cases), published originally in 4 collections, by acclaimed English author Ernest Bramah. His humorous works were ranked with Jerome K Jerome, and W.W. Jacobs, his detective stories with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H.G. Wells and his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood. George Orwell acknowledged that Bramah's book, What Might Have Been, influenced his Nineteen Eighty-Four. Dorothy Sayers also mention Kai Lung, his other main character, in several of her books.Max Carrados is a blind detective who uses his remaining senses in such a way that his blindness is often not immediately apparent to others. George Orwell wrote that, together with those of Conan Doyle and R. Austin Freeman, Max Carrados and The Eyes of Max Carrados, "are the only detective stories since Poe that are worth re-reading."This volume contains:MAX CARRADOS, THE EYES OF MAX CARRADOS, MAX CARRADOS MYSTERIES, THE BRAVO OF LONDON

Delightful collection of mysteries of the first blind detective. In 1914, Ernest Bramah published his first collection of Carrados stories, "Max Carrados." ...

Max Carrados is a fictional blind detective in a series of mystery stories and books by Ernest Bramah.

The adventures of a blind detective in London, featuring four compact mysteries: The Coin of Dionysius, The Knight's Cross Signal Problem, The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage & The Last Exploit of Harry the Actor.

One of the unlikeliest fictional detectives ever brought to life in print, Max Carrados is a sophisticated private detective who was blinded in a tragic horse-riding accident. To compensate for this disability, he has sharpened his other senses to nearly supernatural levels of acuity, and he calls on his remarkable skills in all four of the pulse-pounding tales collected in this volume.