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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