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    The Comedy at Fountain Cottage (A Classic Short Story of Detective Max Carrados)
    The Comedy at Fountain Cottage (A Classic Short Story of Detective Max Carrados)
    The Comedy at Fountain Cottage (A Classic Short Story of Detective Max Carrados)
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    The Comedy at Fountain Cottage (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 1914 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'The Comedy at Fountain Cottage' is a classic Max Carrados mysteries of buried treasure. 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
    ISBN9781473378704
    The Comedy at Fountain Cottage (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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