This early work by Ernest Bramah was originally published in 1914 and we
are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'The Coin of
Dionysius' is a mystery short story of a coin and a blind man. 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.