This early work by Ernest Bramah was originally published in the early
20th century and we are now republishing it with a brand new
introduction. 'The Disappearance of Marie Severe' is a classic missing
person mystery for blind super sleuth Max Carrados. 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.