The Detective Club Crime Classics - And 'The Bunch of Violets'

Informationen zum Autor Ernest Bramah (1868-1942) created a sleuth whose popularity rivalled that of Sherlock Holmes: Max Carrados, a blind detective who solves crimes thanks to his extraordinary skills at reading things with his fingers and paying attention to the sounds that other people overlook. Bramah was an extremely private man, who abandoned a career in farming to become a local newspaper correspondent. He moved to London as secretary to the humorist Jerome K. Jerome and did editorial work on several magazines before turning to writing as a full-time occupation, also creating a hugely successful series of books about the itinerant rogue, Kai Lung, set in the lush atmosphere of China and praised by the novelist Hilaire Belloc. Klappentext The classic crime novel featuring blind detective Max Carrados, whose popularity rivalled that of Sherlock Holmes, complete with a new introduction and an extra short story. Zusammenfassung The classic crime novel featuring blind detective Max Carrados, whose popularity rivalled that of Sherlock Holmes, complete with a new introduction and an extra short story.

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'The Bravo of London is a little too good to be true, but what does that matter in a tale so stirring and so instinct with literary quality? Upon new and old readers alike, Mr Bramah's style will exercise its usual irresistible charm.' Dorothy L. Sayers, The Sunday Times
'The only detective stories since Poe that are worth re-reading' George Orwell
'There's something very alluring about the character of Max Carrados and the nature of a blind detective ... We love detectives, whether a little old lady knitting like Miss Marple, or an egg-headed Belgian, or the great Sherlock Holmes, or the blind Max Carrados - they help us feel that life is going to be OK.' Stephen Fry

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Ernest Bramah
• Con la collaborazione di: Medawar Tony (Introduzione)
• Editore: Harper Collins Uk
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 20.09.2018
• EAN: 9780008297435
• ISBN: 978-0-00-829743-5
• Dimensioni: 126 mm x 190 mm x 26 mm
• Serie: Detective Club Crime Classics; Detective Club Crime Classics
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, FICTION / Crime, Historical mysteries, Crime & mystery, Fiction: special features, Historical fiction, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic crime, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Crime & mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Historical crime & mysteries, Fiction: pastiche, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Classic fiction: general and literary