Max Carrados

Max Carrados, published in 1914, is the first collection of stories featuring Ernest Bramah's ingenious blind detective. Carrados, a wealthy numismatist who lost his sight in a riding accident, assists his old school friend Louis Carlyle — a disgraced solicitor turned private inquiry agent — in solving cases that baffle the professionals. From forged coins to railway sabotage, each story showcases Bramah's gift for tightly plotted mysteries and his ability to make Carrados's blindness a source of deductive power rather than limitation.