Max Carrados

by Ernest Bramah

Overview

Private inquiry agent Mr Carlyle, urgently seeking an authoritative opinion on the provenance of an antique coin, is directed to the home of Mr Carrados, expert numismatist and specialist in identifying forgeries. Upon his arrival, the two men recognise each other as old schoolmates, and Carlyle is shocked to discover that his friend is now completely blind. Yet his pity is misplaced - the urbane Carrados is remarkably skilled in deduction, interpreting his exquisitely precise sense of touch, and analysing his manservant's detailed visual observations. So when he informs Carlyle that he harbours an ambition to become a detective himself, an investigative partnership is born...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789363050327
Publisher:	Double 9 Books
Publication date:	06/01/2024
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.42(d)

About the Author

Ernest Brammah Smith wrote under the name Ernest Bramah from March 20, 1868, until June 27, 1942. He was an English poet. He wrote 21 books and a lot of short stories and articles. Many people put his funny writing up there with that of Jerome K. Jerome and W. W. Jacobs. They also put his mystery stories up there with Conan Doyle, his political science fiction with H. G. Wells, and his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood. George Orwell said that What Might Have Been by Bramah had an effect on his book Nineteen Eighty-Four. Kai Lung and Max Carrados are characters that Bramah made up. Eric Ernest Brammah Smith was born in Manchester, England, in 1868. His middle name was spelled 'Brammah' instead of 'Bramah' on his birth certificate. He was the son of Charles Clement Smith and Susannah (Brammah) Smith. He quit Manchester Grammar School when he was 16 because he was near the bottom in every class. He learned how to be a farmer and then did it on his own. His father helped him with money. In a short time, he went from working in a workplace to being very rich.