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by the British writer

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. It featured his most celebrated character the blind detective Max Carrados who had first appeared in 1914. It was the first and only full-length novel to feature Carrados, who usually appeared in short stories. In a later review

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described it as "a disappointing performance whose most memorable section turns out to be a recycling of one of the short stories". Another modern commentator observed that only in this novel "did Bramah's invention flag, though Joolby, a criminal

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, makes for a memorable villain".Miskimmin p.88

References

Bibliography

* Langford, David. ''Up Through an Empty House of Stars''. Wildside Press, 2003. * Miskimmin, Esme. ''100 British Crime Writers''. Springer Nature, 2020. * Reilly, John M. ''Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers''. Springer, 2015. 1934 British novels British thriller novels British mystery novels Novels set in London Novels by Ernest Bramah Cassell (publisher) books {{1930s-thriller-novel-stub