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    The Knight's Cross Signal Problem (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
    The Knight's Cross Signal Problem (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
    The Knight's Cross Signal Problem (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
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    The Knight's Cross Signal Problem (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

    By Ernest Bramah

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    Although somewhat neglected now, at the height of his fame Ernest Bramah’s mystery tales appeared alongside Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories in the Strand Magazine, even occasionally outselling them. First published in 1913, 'The Knight's Cross Signal Problem' was one of his popular tales. Many crime and detective stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateDec 3, 2014
    ISBN9781447480143
    The Knight's Cross Signal Problem (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
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    Ernest Bramah

    Ernest Bramah (1868–1942) was an English author of detective fiction.

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      The Knight's Cross Signal Problem (Fantasy and Horror Classics) - Ernest Bramah

      ERNEST BRAMAH

      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. During his late teens, he began to contribute short stories and vignettes to the Birmingham News. A few years later, he moved to London’s Grub Street - famous for its concentration of impoverished ‘hack writers’–and eventually became editor of a number of journals.

      Bramah found commercial and critical success with his first novel, The Wallet of Kai Lung, in 1900. The character of Kai Lang–a travelling storyteller in China–went on to feature in a number of his works, many of which featured fantasy elements such as dragons and gods, and utilised an idiosyncratic form of Mandarin English. Something of a recluse, Bramah also wrote political science fiction–in fact, his 1907 novel The Secret of the League was acknowledged by George Orwell as a forerunner to his famous novel Nineteen Eighty-Four–and even tried his hand at detective fiction. At the height of his fame, Bramah’s mystery tales, featuring the blind detective Max Carrados, appeared alongside Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories in the Strand Magazine, even occasionally outselling them. Bramah died in 1942, aged 74.

      The Knight’s Cross Signal

      Problem

      ERNEST BRAMAH

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      ‘Louis,’ exclaimed Mr Carrados, with the air of genial gaiety that Carlyle had found so incongruous to his conception of a blind man, ‘you have a mystery somewhere about you! I know it by your step.’

      Nearly a month had passed since the incident of the false Dionysius had led to the two men meeting. It was now December. Whatever Mr Carlyle’s step might indicate to the inner eye it betokened to the casual observer the manner of a crisp, alert, self-possessed man of business. Carlyle, in truth, betrayed nothing of the pessimism and despondency that had marked him on the earlier occasion.

      ‘You have only yourself to thank that it is a very poor one,’ he retorted. ‘If you hadn’t held me to a hasty promise—’

      ‘To give me an option on the next case that baffled you, no matter what it was—’

      ‘Just so. The consequence is that you get a very unsatisfactory affair that has no special interest to an amateur and is only baffling because it is–well—’

      ‘Well, baffling?’

      ‘Exactly, Max. Your would-be jest has discovered the proverbial truth. I need hardly tell you that it is only the insoluble that is finally baffling and this is very probably insoluble. You remember the awful smash on the Central and Suburban at Knight’s Cross station a few weeks ago?’

      ‘Yes,’ replied Carrados, with interest. ‘I read the whole ghastly details at the time.’

      ‘You read?’ exclaimed his friend suspiciously.

      ‘I still use the familiar phrases,’ explained Carrados, with a smile. ‘As a matter of fact, my secretary reads to me. I

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