Max Carrados (A Collection of Classic Detective Stories) - Softcover

Bramah, Ernest

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1473304830 ISBN 13: 9781473304833

Publisher: Moran Press, 2015

Synopsis

This early work by Ernest Bramah was originally published in 1914 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'Max Carrados' is a collection of Bramah's classic detective tales. 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.

About this title

About the Author:

Ernest Bramah, of whom in his lifetime Who's Who had so little to say, was born in Manche-ster. At seventeen he chose farming as a pro-fession, but after three years of losing money gave it up to go into journalism. He started as correspondent on a typical provincial paper, then went to London as secretary to Jerome K. Jerome, and worked himself into the editorial side of Jerome's magazine, To-day, where the got the opportunity of meeting the most impor-tant literary figures of the day. But he soon left To-day to join a new publishing firm, as editor of a publication called The Minister; finally, after two years of this, he turned to writing as his full-time occupation. He was intensely intere-sted in coins and published a book on the En-glish regal copper coinage. He is, however, best known as the creator of the charming character Kai Lung who appears in Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat, Kai Lung's Golden Hours, The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung Beneath the Mulberry Tree, The Mirror of Kong Ho, and The Moon of Much Gladness; he also wrote two one-act plays which are often performed at London variety theatres, and many stories and articles in leading perio-dicals. He died in 1942.

About this edition

• Publisher: Moran Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1473304830
• ISBN 13: 9781473304833
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 306