The Tilling Shaw Mystery (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 Tilling Shaw Mystery
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Ernest Bramah
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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 Tilling Shaw Mystery
I will see Miss George now,
assented Carrados. Parkinson retired and Greatorex looked round from his chair. The morning clearing-up
was still in progress.
Shall I go?
he inquired.
Not unless the lady desires it. I don’t know her at all.
The secretary was not unobservant and he had profited from his association with Mr Carrados. Without more ado, he began to get his papers quietly together.
The door opened and a girl of about twenty came eagerly yet half timorously into the room. Her eyes for a moment swept Carrados with an anxious scrutiny. Then, with a slight shade of disappointment, she noticed that they were not alone.
I have come direct from Oakshire to see you, Mr Carrados,
she announced, in a quick, nervous voice that was evidently the outcome of