Blood on the Tracks: Railway Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics) by Martin Edwards

Author:Martin Edwards [Edwards, Martin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Crime, Classics, murder, mystery, detective, Puzzle, Train, railway, Transport, Underground, tube, Carriage, short stories, anthology
Publisher: British Library Publishing
Published: 2018-03-13T05:00:00+00:00

The Knight’s Cross Signal Problem

Ernest Bramah

Ernest Bramah’s first book, English Farming and Why I Turned It Up, was published in 1894, and was inspired by the principle ‘write what you know’: at the age of seventeen he had become a farmer, but it proved an unhappy career choice. Bramah, who came from Manchester, and whose real name was Ernest Brammah Smith, dabbled in journalism, and took a job as secretary to Jerome K. Jerome, before becoming a full-time writer. His humorous stories about the Chinese rogue Kai Lung enjoyed considerable popularity in their day, but it is his detective fiction that has stood the test of time.

The success of his mysteries is due in part to his smoothly professional writing, but mainly to his creation in 1914 of a memorable sleuth. Max Carrados is by no means the only blind detective in fiction, but he is probably the most highly regarded. In his history of the genre, Bloody Murder (1972), Julian Symons said that Carrados and his friend, the discredited solicitor turned inquiry agent Louis Carlyle, ‘make an agreeable variation on the Holmes-Watson relationship, with Carlyle more sophisticated and more distinctively characterised than most assistants, and Carrados insistent on the value of having “no blundering, self-confident eyes to be hoodwinked”.’

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