Max Carrados Mysteries A Collection Of Short Stories

This early work by Ernest Bramah was originally published in 1927 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'Max Carrados Mysteries' is a collection of Bramah's classic detective tales containing 'The Secret of Headlam Height', 'The Mystery of The Vanished Petition Crown' and many other stories. Ernest Bramah Smith was born was near Manchester in 1868. He was a poor student, and dropped out of the Manchester Grammar School when sixteen years old to go into the farming business. Bramah found commercial and critical success with his first novel, The Wallet of Kai Lung, but it was his later stories of detective Max Carrados that assured him lasting fame.

This early work by Ernest Bramah was originally published in the early 20th century and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'More Max Carrados Mysteries' is a collection of Bramah's classic mysteries that include the tales 'The Mystery of the Poisoned Dish of Mushrooms', 'The Ingenious Mr. Spinola' and many more. Ernest Bramah Smith was born near Manchester in 1868. He was a poor student, and dropped out of the Manchester Grammar School when sixteen years old to go into the farming business. Bramah found commercial and critical success with his first novel, The Wallet of Kai Lung, but it was his later stories of detective Max Carrados that assured him lasting fame.

The following book is a collection of stories featuring Max Carrados, a sleuth created by Ernest Bramah. The characters and identities of Max Carrados and his usual accomplice Mr Carlyle are explained in the first story, 'The Coin of Dionysius', which can be found in the first chapter of this book. Mr Carlyle is a private investigator, running a private inquiry agency concerned mainly with divorce and defalcation. He is directed to the home of Wynn Carrados at The Turrets, Richmond, London, for an expert opinion on a tetradrachm of Dionysius the Elder of Sicily which he believes may be a forgery substituted into a famous collection in the course of a theft. At their meeting, the blind Carrados immediately recognises Mr Carlyle (from his voice) as his former school friend (at St Michael's), Louis Calling. Carlyle then recognizes him in turn as Max Wynn ("Winning" Wynn). Max explains that he was made financially independent by a rich American cousin who left him a fortune won by doctoring his crop reports, on condition that he adopt the surname Carrados. He was blinded some twelve years before the first story, as a result of a minor incident while out horse-riding with a friend. His friend, who was leading, brushed past a twig which flicked back and caught Max in the eye. From this he was blinded by the illness called amaurosis.

Written during the first flowering of detective fiction, these tales of a blind sleuth combine intellectual thrills with imagination and style. Ten mysteries range in settings from Edwardian London through the early 1920s.

This early work by Ernest Bramah was originally published in 1914 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'Four Max Carrados Detective Stories' is a collection of Bramah's classic mystery tales. Ernest Bramah Smith was born near Manchester in 1868. He was a poor student, and dropped out of the Manchester Grammar School when sixteen years old to go into the farming business. Bramah found commercial and critical success with his first novel, The Wallet of Kai Lung, but it was his later stories of detective Max Carrados that assured him lasting fame.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Max Carrados" by Ernest Bramah. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Max Carrados is a fictional blind detective in a series of mystery stories and books by Ernest Bramah, first published in 1914.The Max Carrados stories appeared alongside Sherlock Holmes stories in the Strand Magazine. .