The Bravo of London: And ‘The Bunch of Violets’
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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.In his dark little curio shop Julian Joolby is weaving an extravagant scheme to smash the financial machinery of the world by flooding the Oriental market with forged banknotes. But this monster of wickedness has not reckoned on Max Carrados, the suave and resourceful investigator whose visual impairment gives him heightened powers of perception that ordinary detectives overlook.Max Carrados was a blind detective whose stories by Ernest Bramah appeared from 1914 alongside Sherlock Holmes in the Strand Magazine, in which they often had top billing. Described by George Orwell as among ‘the only detective stories since Poe that are worth re-reading’, the 25 stories were collected in three hugely popular volumes, culminating in a full-length novel, The Bravo of London (1934), in which Carrados engages in a battle of wits against a fiendish plot that threatens to overthrow civilisation itself.This Detective Club classic is introduced by Tony Medawar, who investigates the impact on the genre of Bramah’s blind detective and the relative obscurity of this, the only Max Carrados novel. This edition also includes the sole uncollected short story ‘The Bunch of Violets’.As well as on the page, the Max Carrados stories have been a firm favourite on television and film, played over the years by (among others) Robert Stephens, Simon Callow and Pip Torrens, and read on audio by Arthur Darvill and Stephen Fry.
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Bramah Ernest. The Bravo of London: And ‘The Bunch of Violets’
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INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. THE ROAD TO TAPSFIELD
CHAPTER II. JOOLBY DOES A LITTLE BUSINESS
CHAPTER III. MR BRONSKY HAS MISGIVINGS
CHAPTER IV. CORA LARCH IS OFFERED A GOOD SITUATION
CHAPTER V. THE MEETING AT ELEVEN
CHAPTER VI. TILEHURST FAILS TO KEEP AN APPOINTMENT
CHAPTER VII. DR OLIVANT ESTABLISHES HIS BONA FIDES
CHAPTER VIII. MAX CARRADOS BECOMES INTERESTED IN TRIFLES
CHAPTER IX. IN WHICH THE ASSURANCE OF THE EYE DECEIVES THE MIND
CHAPTER X. NIPPER CONTRIBUTES TO THE PROBLEM
CHAPTER XI. A MINE IS COUNTERMINED
CHAPTER XII. THE STAGE IS SET
CHAPTER XIII. NORA TELLS THE TALE AND CARRADOS SUPPLIES THE MUSIC
CHAPTER XIV. A SIGNAL OF DISTRESS INTO THE UNKNOWN
CHAPTER XV. THE MAN AT THE OTHER END
CHAPTER XVI. LAST LAUGHTER
THE BUNCH OF VIOLETS. AN EPISODE IN THE WAR-TIME ACTIVITIES OF MAX CARRADOS
THE DETECTIVE STORY CLUB
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‘But this is most interesting; really most extraordinarily interesting,’ insisted the now thoroughly intrigued clergyman. ‘In the year when the Great Fire of London was raging and—yes—I suppose Milton would be writing Paradise Lost then, your remote ancestor was issuing these halfpennies to provide the necessary shopping change here in Tapsfield. And now, more than two hundred and fifty years later, you turn up from Australia to visit the birthplace of your race. Do you know, I find that a really suggestive line of thought, Mr Dixson; most extraordinarily impressive.’
‘I can hardly expect to discover any Dixson here,’ commented Anthony, with a speculative note of inquiry, ‘and even if there were they would be too remote to have any actual relationship. But possibly there are some of the old houses standing—’
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