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What if the best person to uncover a hidden truth is the one who cannot see?
Max Carrados is wealthy, well-read and calm in the face of puzzles that defeat people with perfect eyesight. In Ernest Bramah's eight detective stories, he listens, touches, smells and reasons his way toward the truth. His old friend Louis Carlyle, a private inquiry agent, brings baffling cases to his door, with clients who need answers they cannot find alone.
The mysteries lead through the everyday world of Edwardian England: houses, railways, theaters and rented flats, where respectable people have something to hide. In The Game Played in the Dark, darkness gives Carrados no disadvantage at all. Across the collection, the question is not simply who commits a crime, but what others overlook when they trust their eyes.
What you’ll discover
- A detective worth knowing Meet a confident gentleman whose warmth and dry humor make clever reasoning a pleasure.
- Clues beyond the visible Follow hearing, touch and smell toward answers that eyesight alone cannot supply.
- Secrets behind respectable doors Explore familiar places where ordinary people bring fears, puzzles and hidden troubles.
- A friendship built on puzzles Watch Carlyle bring difficult cases to an old friend with a different approach.
- A fresh way to notice Discover the idea beneath the mysteries: perception means more than the ability to see.
Is it for you?
This book suits you if you enjoy short, clever mysteries, Edwardian London, or detectives who solve cases by reasoning rather than chases. It may suit you less if you want modern pace, graphic crime or long, tangled plots.
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The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A blind man with sharper senses
- Carlyle brings the cases to him
- Ordinary crimes in Edwardian England
- Ghosts, games and dark rooms
- Cleverness, wit and the human touch
- What the book teaches about seeing
Who’s who
- Max CarradosA rich, blind, well-read gentleman who solves crimes by hearing, touch, smell and logic, and who wants the truth set right.
- Louis CarlyleA private inquiry agent and old friend who brings baffling cases to Carrados and wants to clear them for his clients.
- ParkinsonCarrados's loyal manservant, who looks after the household at The Turrets and helps his master with daily life.
- The clientsOrdinary people of Edwardian England, from householders to theater folk, who come with puzzles, fears or secrets they cannot solve alone.
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Max Carrados
by Ernest Bramah· 1914
A blind detective solves crimes through his other senses.
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A blind man with sharper senses
The first thing to know about Max Carrados is that the stories never treat his blindness as a tragedy to be pitied. He is wealthy, comfortable and sure of himself. He lives at a house called The Turrets, near Richmond, and is looked after by a devoted manservant named Parkinson. He loves his books, his collections and his work.
Bramah gives him a trained skill set rather than magic. Carrados has spent years sharpening hearing, touch and smell, and he reads a printed page by running his fingertips over it. He can tell a good deal from the sound of a step, the feel of a coin or the scent in a room. The stories present all this as practice and attention, and the reader is asked to believe it because the details are specific.
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Ernest Bramah
1868–1942 · English novelist
Ernest Bramah was an English author born in Manchester in 1868. He later lived in London and died in 1942. He wrote fiction featuring Kai Lung and the blind detective Max Carrados. His books include The Wallet of Kai Lung (1900), Max Carrados (1914), and Kai Lung’s Golden Hours (1922).
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What is Max Carrados about?
It is a collection of eight detective stories about Max Carrados, a wealthy blind man who solves crimes using hearing, touch, smell and reasoning. His friend Louis Carlyle, a private agent, brings him most of the cases.
Who is Max Carrados?
Max Carrados is the blind detective at the center of Ernest Bramah's stories. He is rich, educated and calm, lives near Richmond, and uses highly trained senses and sharp logic to solve puzzles.
When was Max Carrados written?
The book was published in 1914, in the Edwardian period, when the detective story was very popular. The cases are fictional but are set in realistic English homes, railways and theaters of that time.
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