The Tales of Max Carrados
by:
Ernest Bramah (author)
Stephen Fry (narrator)
Exclusive audio collection. Eleven Max Carrados stories - narrated by national treasure Stephen Fry. Max Carrados featured in a series of mystery stories that first appeared in 1914. Carrados featured alongside Sherlock Holmes in The Strand magazine, in which they both had top billing. The...
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Exclusive audio collection. Eleven Max Carrados stories - narrated by national treasure Stephen Fry.
Max Carrados featured in a series of mystery stories that first appeared in 1914. Carrados featured alongside Sherlock Holmes in The Strand magazine, in which they both had top billing. The character often boasted how being blind meant his other senses were heightened.
• The Coin of Dionysus
• The Game Played in the Dark
• The Holloway Road Flat Tragedy
• The Curious Circumstances of the Two Left Shoes
• The Secret of Headlam Height
• The Mystery of the Vanished Crown
• The Ingenious Mind of Mr Rigby Lacksome
• The Strange Case of Cyril Bycourt
• The Crime at the House in Culver Street
• The Bunch of Violets
• The Missing Witness Sensation
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Format: audiobook
ASIN: B01ATTRCSY
Publish date: 2016-02-03
Publisher: Audible Studios
Minutes: 671
Edition language: English
Ernest Bramah's tales of the independently wealthy, blind amateur detective Max Carrados were once featured in Strand Magazine alongside Arthur Conan Dolye's Sherlock Holmes stories, and jointly with those and R. Austin Freeman's Dr. Thorndyke narratives they carried the distinction of having been s...
The book contains eight short stories, all mysteries but it's the detective that's unique. Max Carrados was in a riding accident that resulted in blindness, and when he bumps (not literally) into his old school friend Carlyle and finds a new career with him as a detective. Helpful Links: wikipeida,...