Max Carrados Mysteries (A Collection Of Short Stories) eBook

This early work by Ernest Bramah was originally published in 1927 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. ''Max Carrados Mysteries'' is a collection of Bramah''s classic detective tales containing ''The Secret of Headlam Height'', ''The Mystery of The Vanished Petition Crown'' and many other stories. Ernest Bramah Smith was born was near Manchester in 1868. He was a poor student, and dropped out of the Manchester Grammar School when sixteen years old to go into the farming business. Bramah found commercial and critical success with his first novel, The Wallet of Kai Lung, but it was his later stories of detective Max Carrados that assured him lasting fame.