This early work by Ernest Bramah was originally published in 1911 and we
are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 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 assusred him lasting fame.