Review: Max Carrados super sleuth in 17 wonderful stories, well worth reading!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 29, 2012
Max is a blind detective, technically Amaurosis ( Max is quite technical ) anyway, while riding along a bridle trail, following a friend at one point a twig sprang back  you know how easily a thing like that happens, flicking Max in the eye. Max has compensated,  no dog and stick for Max. Most can hardly believe it, for Max is self reliant , if  a little quiet, but with eyes full of expression. Max's ears are never hoodwinked " a rum way to putting  it" nor his fingers, nor any of his other senses that have learned to look out for themselves. New perceptions, new experiences and  new powers awakening. Strange new perceptions, life in the fourth dimension.  Max had always held a secret ambition  to  be a detective. Max a gentleman  is comfortably well off (due to an American cousin''s defalcations) and retains a man, a valet named Parkinson. A keen observer  who  Max  at times uses, for longer range as a pair of eyes.The Max Carrados stories are-very well written, at times humorous always engaging often surprising!  Mr Bramah has written  warm engaging characters and realistic and believable situations. While Max was created in 1914 most  of them were written  between 1923 and 1934 during the height of hard-boiled detective era.  Mr Bramah is also credited with political science fiction which prompted George Orwell's 1984 also in his fantasy stories of  Mandarin itinerant story teller Kai Lung he is credited with inventing the saying  " May you live in interesting times "