Ernest Bramah

The Bravo of London (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Excerpt: A tolerably hard nut to crack, of course, said the self-possessed young man with the very agreeable smile-an accomplishment which he did not trouble to exercise on his associate in this case, since they knew one another pretty well and were strictly talking business; or you wouldn't be so dead keen about me, Joolby. Oh, I don't know; I don't know, Nickle, replied the other with equal coolness, There are hundreds-thousands-of young demobs like yourself to be had to-day for the asking. All very nice chaps personally, quite unscrupulous, willing to take any risk, competent within certain limits, and not one of them able to earn an honest living. No; if I were you I shouldn't fancy myself indispensable.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OTB eBook publishing
• Seitenzahl: 223
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783965371309
• Artikelnr.: 56684620

Autorenporträt

Ernest Bramah (1868-1942) created a sleuth whose popularity rivalled that of Sherlock Holmes: Max Carrados, a blind detective who solves crimes thanks to his extraordinary skills at reading things with his fingers and paying attention to the sounds that other people overlook. Bramah was an extremely private man, who abandoned a career in farming to become a local newspaper correspondent. He moved to London as secretary to the humorist Jerome K. Jerome and did editorial work on several magazines before turning to writing as a full-time occupation, also creating a hugely successful series of books about the itinerant rogue, Kai Lung, set in the lush atmosphere of China and praised by the novelist Hilaire Belloc.

Rezensionen

'The Bravo of London is a little too good to be true, but what does that matter in a tale so stirring and so instinct with literary quality? Upon new and old readers alike, Mr Bramah's style will exercise its usual irresistible charm.' Dorothy L. Sayers, The Sunday Times

'The only detective stories since Poe that are worth re-reading' George Orwell

'There's something very alluring about the character of Max Carrados and the nature of a blind detective ... We love detectives, whether a little old lady knitting like Miss Marple, or an egg-headed Belgian, or the great Sherlock Holmes, or the blind Max Carrados - they help us feel that life is going to be OK.' Stephen Fry