Four Max Carrados Detective Stories

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Four Max Carrados Detective Stories Four Max Carrados Detective Stories

Author: Ernest Bramah

Category: Science

Published: 2004

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V.3 2016. Few typos corrected.V2. Added "The Bunch of Violets", adventure # 42.This volume features ALL MAX CARRADOS ADVENTURES (42 Cases), published originally in 4 collections, by acclaimed English author Ernest Bramah. He 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 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