Max Carrados Mysteries (A Collection of Short Stories)

Ernest Bramah

• Publisher: Moran Press
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN:
  9781473378865
• Print ISBN:
  9781473304925

This early work by Ernest Bramah was originally published in 1927 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'Max Carrados Mysteries' is a collection of Bramah's classic detective tales containing 'The Secret of Headlam Height', 'The Mystery of The Vanished Petition Crown' and many other stories. 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.

Table of contents

• Max Carrados Mysteries
• Ernest Bramah
• The Secret of Headlam Height
• The Mystery of The Vanished Petition Crown
• The Holloway Flat Tragedy
• The Curious Circumstances of the Two Left Shoes
• The Ingenious Mind of Mr Rigby Lacksome
• The Crime at the House inCulver Street
• The Strange Case of Cyril Bycourt
• The Missing Witness Sensation