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    The Curious Circumstances of the Two Left Shoes (A Classic Short Story of Detective Max Carrados)
    The Curious Circumstances of the Two Left Shoes (A Classic Short Story of Detective Max Carrados)
    The Curious Circumstances of the Two Left Shoes (A Classic Short Story of Detective Max Carrados)
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    The Curious Circumstances of the Two Left Shoes (A Classic Short Story of Detective Max Carrados)

    By Ernest Bramah

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    This early work by Ernest Bramah was originally published in 1927 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'The Curious Circumstances of the Two Left Shoes' is a classic case for blind super sleuth Max Carrados. 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateJan 18, 2016
    ISBN9781473378766
    The Curious Circumstances of the Two Left Shoes (A Classic Short Story of Detective Max Carrados)
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    Ernest Bramah

    Ernest Bramah (1868–1942) was an English author of detective fiction.

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      The Curious Circumstances of the Two Left Shoes (A Classic Short Story of Detective Max Carrados) - Ernest Bramah

      The Curious Circumstances

      of the Two Left Shoes

      By

      Ernest Bramah

      Copyright © 2013 Read Books Ltd.

      This book is copyright and may not be

      reproduced or copied in any way without

      the express permission of the publisher in writing

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      Ernest Bramah

      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. During his late teens, he began to contribute short stories and vignettes to the Birmingham News. A few years later, he moved to London’s Grub Street - famous for its concentration of impoverished ‘hack writers’ – and eventually became editor of a number of journals.

      Bramah found commercial and critical success with his first novel, The Wallet of Kai Lung, in 1900. The character of Kai Lang – a travelling storyteller in China – went on to feature in a number of his works, many of which featured fantasy elements such as dragons and gods, and utilised an idiosyncratic form of Mandarin English. Something of a recluse, Bramah also wrote political science fiction – in fact, his 1907 novel The Secret of the League was acknowledged by George Orwell as a forerunner to his famous novel Nineteen Eighty-Four – and even tried his hand at detective fiction. At the height of his fame, Bramah’s mystery tales, featuring the blind detective Max Carrados, appeared alongside Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories in the Strand Magazine, even occasionally outselling them. Bramah died in 1942, aged 74.

      The Curious Circumstances of

      the Two Left Shoes

      At the time when the Enderleighs lost their silver the Monkey Burglar was at the height of his fame. The Monkey Burglar, should you by this date have forgotten, was the one who invariably gained access by leaping from a tree on to an upper-storey window-sill. So strong was habit that there were said to be cases of the Monkey Burglar going through this performance at houses where the front door stood open, or where a builder’s ladder, left in position overnight, was reared against the very point he gained by the more sensational flight. During the thick of the burglary season that year each number of Punch regularly contained one or more jokes about the Monkey; no pantomime was complete without a few references to him; and the burgled invariably tried to claim distinction as authentic victims. In this, the Press, to do it justice, worthily seconded their endeavours.

      The Enderleighs lived near Silver Park at that time, in one of the old-fashioned cottages that have long, delightful gardens running down to the river edge. They were a young

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