Queen's Quorum 56 Ernest Bramah Max Carrados 1914 1st UK edition. Vg

Description: Queen's Quorum 56 Ernest Bramah Max Carrados 1914 1st UK edition. Vg. First editon. Pseudoname of Ernest Bramah Smith) Publisher: London Methuen & Co. First published in 1914. First issue with 31 advertisements dated "Autumn 1913". 296 pp. Condition: Foxing on edges and text. John Bull Award of Merit tipped in. No insciptions. Minor rubbing to spie and Front cover edges. Ellery Queen calls this first volume of his adventures, "One of the ten best volumes of detective shorts ever written!" Blinded in an accident, Carrados developed remarkable abilities. He can read newspaper headlines with a touch of his fingers, recognize a friend he has not seen in twenty-five years by his voice, and detect a man wearing a false moustache because "he carries a five-yard aura of spirit gum." Nor did his loss of sight affect his sense of humor, his compassion, or a sense of justice which forces him to skirt the law to see the innocent is protected and the guilty punished. As the author puts it, Carrados' blindness "-but so far from crippling his interests in life or his energies, it has merely impelled him to develop those senses which in most of us lie dormant and practically unused. Thus you will understand that while he may be at a disadvantage while you are at an advantage, he is at an advantage while you are at a disadvantage." Working with his old friend, Louis Carlyle, a private investigator, the wealthy Carrados pursues his talent for detection whenever he pleases without accepting a fee. The exchanges between the humorless Carlyle, eager for Carrados help but unwilling to admit his bafflement, and the gentle malice of the perceptive Carrados are among the high spots of the stories. The Max Carrados stories appeared alongside Sherlock Holmes stories in the Strand Magazine. The stories collected are:1. The Coin of Dionysus2. The Knight’s Cross Signal Problem3. The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage4. The Clever Mrs. Straithwaite5. The Last Exploit of Harry the Actor6. The Tilling Shaw Mystery7. The Comedy at Fountain Cottage8. The Game Played in the Dark

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