Ernest Bramah: Complete Works

ISBN-13: 9788028337858 / Angielski / Miękka / 1088 str.

Ernest Bramah

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Ernest Bramah (1868-1942) was an English author. He published numerous thriller books, detective stories and supernatural tales, creating the characters Kai Lung and Max Carrados. Bramah's detective stories were ranked with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H. G. Wells, his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood and his humorous works with Jerome K Jerome. George Orwell acknowledged that Bramah's book, The Secret of the League, influenced his Nineteen Eighty-Four. Table of Contents: - Max Carrados Series - The Coin of Dionysius - The Knight's Cross Signal Problem - The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage - The Clever Mrs. Straithwaite - The Last Exploit Of Harry the Actor - The Tilling Shaw Mystery - The Comedy at Fountain Cottage - The Game Played In the Dark - The Virginiola Fraud - The Disappearance of Marie Severe - The Secret of Dunstan's Tower - The Mystery of the Poisoned Dish of Mushrooms - The Ghost at Massingham Mansions - The Missing Actress Sensation - The Ingenious Mr. Spinola - The Kingsmouth Spy Case - The Eastern Mystery - 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 in Culver Street - The Strange Case of Cyril Bycourt - The Missing Witness Sensation - The Bravo of London: A Novel - Kai Lung Series - The Transmutation of Ling - The Story of Yung Chang - The Probation of Sen Heng - The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung - The Confession of Kai Lung - The Vengeance of Tung Fel - The Career of the Charitable Quen-Ki-Tong - The Vision of Yin, the Son of Yat Huang - The Ill-Regulated Destiny of Kin Yen, the Picture-Maker - Kai Lung's Golden Hours - Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat - Other Novels - The Mirror of Kong Ho - The Secret of the League