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:	9781776588497
Publisher:	The Floating Press
Publication date:	05/01/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	329 KB

About the Author

Ernest Bramah, of whom in his lifetime Who's Who had so little to say, was born in Manche-ster. At seventeen he chose farming as a pro-fession, but after three years of losing money gave it up to go into journalism. He started as correspondent on a typical provincial paper, then went to London as secretary to Jerome K. Jerome, and worked himself into the editorial side of Jerome's magazine, To-day, where the got the opportunity of meeting the most impor-tant literary figures of the day. But he soon left To-day to join a new publishing firm, as editor of a publication called The Minister; finally, after two years of this, he turned to writing as his full-time occupation. He was intensely intere-sted in coins and published a book on the En-glish regal copper coinage. He is, however, best known as the creator of the charming character Kai Lung who appears in Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat, Kai Lung's Golden Hours, The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung Beneath the Mulberry Tree, The Mirror of Kong Ho, and The Moon of Much Gladness; he also wrote two one-act plays which are often performed at London variety theatres, and many stories and articles in leading perio-dicals. He died in 1942.