Max Carrados ist ein äußerst ungewöhnlicher Detektiv. Obwohl der Aristokrat bei einem Unfall sein Augenlicht verloren hat, vermag er dank seiner sehr ausgeprägten anderen Sinne die kniffligsten Fälle zu lösen. In vier abwechslungsreichen Geschichten kommt Carrados Münzfälschern auf die Spur, muss beweisen, dass ein tragisches Zugunglück absichtlich herbeigeführt wurde, Mordpläne vereiteln und sieht sich mit einer glamourösen Frau konfrontiert, deren Perlenkette gestohlen wurde.
Ernest Bramah schuf...
Ein blinder Detektiv, der Licht ins Dunkel bringt
Max Carrados ist ein äußerst ungewöhnlicher Detektiv. Obwohl der Aristo...
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...
Ernest Bramah (1868-1942) was an English author. He published numerous thriller books, detective stories and supernatural tales, creating the characte...
A secret organization of upper class dissenters, called The League, is not happy with their weak government and wants to overthrow it. In a clever plan they bring about a civil war in Britain by manipulating the coal strike with foreign help and plant a fascist regime in its place. What comes about is a total breakdown giving an accurate prediction of the rise of Fascism, as George Orwell famously noted. Superficially the novel (also alternately known as What Might Have Been) seems like it is promoting the cause of The League but it is in fact a bleary take on what might end up happening if...
A secret organization of upper class dissenters, called The League, is not happy with their weak government and wants to overthrow it. In a clever pla...
Max Carrados is a blind detective who makes use of his remaining senses in such a way that his blindness is often not immediately apparent to others. Carrados enjoys the excitement of revealing his explanations of mysteries through powers of perception, which in his case are heightened in positive compensation for his visual impairment. George Orwell wrote that, together with those of Conan Doyle and R. Austin Freeman, Max Carrados stories "are the only detective stories since Poe that are worth re-reading." Ernest Bramah (1868-1942) was an English author. He published numerous thriller...
Max Carrados is a blind detective who makes use of his remaining senses in such a way that his blindness is often not immediately apparent to others. ...
Kai Lung is a Chinese storyteller whose travels and exploits serve mainly as excuses to introduce substories. He is a man of very simple motivations; most frequently, he is animated by a desire for enough taels to be able to feed and clothe himself. This character usually comes into conflict with barbarians, bandits, and other people who are not classically educated, as well as various unscrupulous individuals who are intent on taking away his property. Ernest Bramah (1868-1942) was an English author. He published numerous thriller books, detective stories and supernatural tales, creating the...
Kai Lung is a Chinese storyteller whose travels and exploits serve mainly as excuses to introduce substories. He is a man of very simple motivations; ...
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. Contents: - Max Carrados - The Coin of Dionysius - The Knight's Cross Signal Problem - The Tragedy at Brookbend...
Ernest Bramah (1868-1942) was an English author. He published numerous thriller books, detective stories and supernatural tales, creating the characte...
