Max Carrados: The Blind Detective

Some detectives rely on witnesses. Max Carrados relies on everything else. Blinded in a riding accident, the quietly formidable gentleman of The Turrets has turned loss into an uncanny gift: a footstep on gravel tells him a man's weight, a rustle of paper gives up a card's message, a single note of music betrays a forgery. When private inquiry agent Louis Carlyle stumbles into his orbit over a stolen ancient coin, he finds a partner who pursues every mystery in perfect darkness, from a deadly garden gate and a haunted London flat to a long-kept secret at Dunstan's Tower. This is a faithful modern retelling of Ernest Bramah's 1914 classic: the same cases, the same wit, the same brilliant detective, rendered in clear, vivid, present-day English. No fog, no archaic diction, just sharp, humane detection that holds up in any century. Part of Timeless Classics.