Max Carrados
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Bramah Ernest. Max Carrados
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
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“Louis,” exclaimed Mr Carrados, with the air of genial gaiety that Carlyle had found so incongruous to his conception of a blind man, “you have a mystery somewhere about you! I know it by your step.”
Nearly a month had passed since the incident of the false Dionysius had led to the two men meeting. It was now December. Whatever Mr Carlyle’s step might indicate to the inner eye it betokened to the casual observer the manner of a crisp, alert, self-possessed man of business. Carlyle, in truth, betrayed nothing of the pessimism and despondency that had marked him on the earlier occasion.
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“Very little, sir. A plain gold brooch representing a merry-thought – the merry-thought of a sparrow, I should say, sir. The only other article was a smooth-backed gun-metal watch, suspended from a gun-metal bow.”
“Nothing showy or expensive, eh?”
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