The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage | A Max Carrados story by Ernest Bramah | A Bitesized Audiobook

Max Carrados, the blind detective, is called in by his friend Mr Carlyle to advise a man who believes his sister is at imminent risk of being murdered by her husband at their lonely cottage on the rural fringe of London. Max quickly deduces that an ingenious crime is being planned, but will he be in time to prevent a tragedy...? A new, original recording of a classic public domain text, read and performed by Simon Stanhope for Bitesized Audio. If you enjoyed this content and would like to help me keep producing new readings, you can find me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bitesizedaudio Or if you'd like to make occasional one-off contributions, you can Buy Me a Coffee here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bitesizedaudio Ernest Bramah (1868–1942) was born Ernest Bramah Smith, probably in or near Manchester, where he attended grammar school. An intensely private man, very little information is known about his personal life. His early career included a stint as assistant to Jerome K. Jerome; his first success as a writer came as a contributor of humorous sketches somewhat in the manner of Jerome, to newspapers and periodicals, and he later became editor of one of Jerome's magazines. As an author he is best remembered for creating two characters: Kai Lung, a Chinese storyteller who appeared in a number of humorous stories from 1900; and Max Carrados, the blind detective, created in 1913. He also wrote science fiction, and his 1907 novel 'What Might Have Been' (also known as 'The Secret of the League') is a dystopian story which was acknowledged by George Orwell as a major influence on his own 'Nineteen Eighty-four'. Orwell was also a great admirer of the Max Carrados stories, bracketing them with Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Freeman's Dr Thorndyke as "the only detective stories since Poe that are worth re-reading". The character of Carrados appeared in more than 25 short stories and novels between 1913 and 1934, and by the 1920s was more popular than Sherlock Holmes (whose later cases appeared alongside Ca