The Eyes of Max Carrados

The Eyes of Max Carrados PDF Author: Ernest Bramah
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Languages : en
Pages : 364

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The Eyes of Max Carrados

The Eyes of Max Carrados PDF Author: Ernest Bramah
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Pages : 364

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The Eyes of Max Carrados

The Eyes of Max Carrados PDF Author: Ernest Bramah
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Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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The Coin of Dionysius (A Classic Short Story of Detective Max Carrados)

The Coin of Dionysius (A Classic Short Story of Detective Max Carrados) PDF Author: Ernest Bramah
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473378656
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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This early work by Ernest Bramah was originally published in 1914 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'The Coin of Dionysius' is a mystery short story of a coin and a blind man. 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.

The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage (A Classic Short Story of Detective Max Carrados)

The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage (A Classic Short Story of Detective Max Carrados) PDF Author: Ernest Bramah
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473378664
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33

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This early work by Ernest Bramah was originally published in 1914 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage' is a Max Carrados mystery of a man's plot to murder his wife. 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.

The Game Played in the Dark

The Game Played in the Dark PDF Author: Ernest Bramah
Publisher: Good Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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The Game Played in the Dark by Ernest Bramah is a detective suspense novel following Inspector Beedle and his many mystifying cases. Excerpt: "'It's a funny thing, sir,' said Inspector Beedel, regarding Mr. Carrados with the pensive respect that he always extended towards the blind amateur, 'it's a funny thing, but nothing seems to go on abroad now but what you'll find some trace of it here in London if you take the trouble to look.' 'In the right quarter,' contributed Carrados."

Shadows of Sherlock Holmes

Shadows of Sherlock Holmes PDF Author: David Stuart Davies
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853267444
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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A collection of stories featuring detectives, criminal agents and debonair crooks from the golden age of crime fiction: a time when Sherlock Holmes was esconsced in his rooms at 221B Baker Street and London was permanently wreathed in a sinister fog.

The Wallet of Kai Lung

The Wallet of Kai Lung PDF Author: Ernest Bramah
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Category : Fantasy fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Vintage Mystery and Detective Stories

Vintage Mystery and Detective Stories PDF Author: David Stuart Davies
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781840220650
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1284

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This is a richly entertaining collection of stories from the golden age of crime fiction - a period when crimes were solved by the wit and ingenuity of the sleuth with only his own intelligence to rely on

100 British Crime Writers

100 British Crime Writers PDF Author: Esme Miskimmin
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 113731902X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 425

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100 British Crime Writers explores a history of British crime writing between 1855 and 2015 through 100 writers, detailing their lives and significant writing and exploring their contributions to the genre. Divided into four sections: ‘The Victorians, Edwardians, and World War One, 1855-1918’; ‘The Golden Age and World War Two, 1919-1945’; ‘Post-War and Cold War, 1946-1989’; and ‘To the Millennium and Beyond, 1990-2015’, each section offers an introduction to the significant features of these eras in crime fiction and discusses trends in publication, readership, and critical response. With entries spanning the earliest authors of crime fiction to a selection of innovative contemporary novelists, this book considers the development and progression of the genre in the light of historical and social events.

The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries

The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries PDF Author: Otto Penzler
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 0345802985
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 674

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The most complete collection of Yuletide whodunits ever assembled • The Edgar Award-winning editor collects sixty of his all-time favorite holiday crime stories—from Arthur Conan Doyle and Thomas Hardy to Sara Paretsky and Ed McBain. “Anyone who cares about the best mystery writing of the past century and beyond would be lucky to receive this thick volume during the holidays." —The Washington Post This collection touches on all aspects of the holiday season, and all types of mysteries. They are suspenseful, funny, frightening, and poignant. Included are puzzles by Mary Higgins Clark, Isaac Asimov, and Ngaio Marsh; uncanny tales in the tradition of A Christmas Carol by Peter Lovesey and Max Allan Collins; O. Henry-like stories by Stanley Ellin and Joseph Shearing, stories by pulp icons John D. MacDonald and Damon Runyon; comic gems from Donald E. Westlake and John Mortimer; and many, many more. Almost any kind of mystery you’re in the mood for--suspense, pure detection, humor, cozy, private eye, or police procedural—can be found in these pages. FEATURING: • Unscrupulous Santas • Crimes of Christmases Past and Present • Festive felonies • Deadly puddings • Misdemeanors under the mistletoe • Christmas cases for classic characters including Sherlock Holmes, Brother Cadfael, Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, Ellery Queen, Rumpole of the Bailey, Inspector Morse, Inspector Ghote, A.J. Raffles, and Nero Wolfe.