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It was eight o'clock at night and raining, scarcely a time when a business so limited in its clientele as that of a coin dealer could hope to attract any customer, but a light was still showing in the small shop that bore over its window the name of Baxter, and in the even smaller... Read Full Overview

Ernest Bramah was born on 20th March 1868. He was an intensely private man and very little about his life was ever released.

Bramah dropped out of Manchester Grammar school at sixteen, in almost all his subjects he was close to the bottom of his class, and took a job at a... Read Full Overview

Step into the intriguing world of amateur sleuth Max Carrados in "Four Max Carrados Detective Stories" by Ernest Bramah. This collection of classic detective stories features Carrados, a blind detective with extraordinary powers of observation and deduction.

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 ActorWe are happy to announce this classic book. Many of the books in our... Read Full Overview

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.

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. Bramah was often billed above Arthur Conan Doyle, and the... Read Full Overview

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. Bramah was often billed above Arthur Conan Doyle, and... Read Full Overview

Ernest Bramah (1868-1942) was an English author of considerable repute in his day. In total Bramah published 21 books and numerous short stories and features. His humorous works were ranked with Jerome K Jerome, and W. W. Jacobs; his detective stories with Conan Doyle; his politico-science... Read Full Overview

A fictitious blind investigator named Max Carrados appears in Ernest Bramah's 1914 collection of mystery stories and books, Four Max Carrados Detective Stories. In the Strand Magazine, the four Max Carrados detective stories coexisted with the Sherlock Holmes adventures. The... Read Full Overview

Max Carrados is a blind detective with a keen intellect and a talent for deduction. In these four stories, he solves seemingly impossible mysteries involving stolen gems, secret codes, and murder. Written by Ernest Bramah, a popular writer of crime fiction in the early 20th... Read Full Overview

Max Carrados is a blind detective with a keen intellect and a talent for deduction. In these four stories, he solves seemingly impossible mysteries involving stolen gems, secret codes, and murder. Written by Ernest Bramah, a popular writer of crime fiction in the early 20th... Read Full Overview

Four Max Carrados Detective Stories

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. Bramah was often billed above Arthur Conan Doyle, and... Read Full Overview