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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
Just finished Max Carrados by Ernest Bramah (1914), the first in the Max Carrados series. It contained eight short stories about Max Carrados, the blind amateur detective, most of which were okay, but had a tendency to not play fair with the reader, in my opinion. Too often the solution came by way of a last minute revelation consisting of information that had been available to the detective, but not to the reader.
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My feelings exactly. And the fact that his blindness seemed to be no impediment whatsoever.