Five Detective Stories by Ernest Bram..., Ernest Bramah
Five Detective Stories by Ernest Bram..., Ernest Bramah
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Five Detective Stories by Ernest Bramah

Author: Ernest Bramah

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Unabridged: 5 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/20/2015


Synopsis

Ernest Bramah (1868-1942) was an English author of 21 novels and numerous short stories and features. His humorous works have been 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.

In his stories of detection, Bramah hit on the idea of a blind detective, Max Carrados, whose triumphs are all the more amazing because of his disability.

This collection features five of Max Carrados's most puzzling cases: "The Curious Circumstances of the Two Left Shoes", "The Game Played in the Dark", "The Last Exploit of Harry the Actor", "The Comedy at Fountain Cottage", and "Who Killed Charlie Winpole?"

Reviews

Goodreads review by Felicity on March 19, 2022

This is unashamedly and self-righteously right-wing fiction written, admittedly, well before the worst excesses of fascism. I don't have to share the author's political and social thesis, but I do expect to be interested in its exposition. Sadly, I wasn't. There are some witty vignettes of woolly li......more

Goodreads review by Nicholas on January 02, 2025

[URL not allowed]-might-have-been-the-story-of-a-social-war-by-ernest-bramah/ It’s pretty horrible actually. Written in 1907, it is set in 1918 after a Socialist government has come to power in the UK (and Ireland has Home Rule); the lefties turn out to be disastrous at actually g......more

Goodreads review by Paula on June 22, 2018

It’s Britain at the start of the 20th century in science fiction: there are flying machines, telegraphs, cars and a social war between conservatives (the good guys including also brave and smart women) and labour (chaotic and incompetent). Guess who wins the war. A good portrait of what must have be......more