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Author:Ernest Bramah

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Ernest Bramah
(1868–1942)

English author in the fields of humour, mystery and politico-science fiction. Best known for the Kai Lung and Max Carrados (the blind detective) series.

Ernest Bramah

Works

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Kai Lung books

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The Transmutation of Ling — The Story of Yung Chang — The Probation of Sen Heng — The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung — The Confession of Kai Lung — The Vengeance of Tung Fel — The Career of the Charitable Quen-Ki-Tong — The Vision of Yin, The Son of Yat Huang — The Ill-regulated Destiny of Kin Yen, the Picture-maker

Max Carrados books

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The Coin of Dionysius — The Knight's Cross Signal Problem — The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage — The Clever Mrs Straithwaite — The Last Exploit of Harry the Actor — The Tilling Shaw Mystery — The Comedy at Fountain Cottage — The Game Played in the Dark
The Virginiola Fraud — The Disappearance of Marie Severe — The Secret of Dunstan's Tower — The Mystery of the Poisoned Dish of Mushrooms — The Ghost at Massingham Mansions — The Missing Actress Sensation — The Ingenious Mr Spinola — The Kingsmouth Spy Case — The Eastern Mystery
The Secret of Headlam Height — The Mystery of the Vanished Petition Crown — The Holloway Flat Tragedy — The Curious Circumstances of the Two Left Shoes — The Ingenious Mind of Mr Rigby Lacksome — The Crime at the House in Culver Street — The Strange Case of Cyril Bycourt — The Missing Witness Sensation
  • The Bravo of London (1934)

Other fiction

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Ming Tseuen and the Emergency — The Delicate Case of Mlle. Célestine Bon — The Dead March — A Very Black Business — The Bunch of Violets — Revolution — Smothered in Corpses — Fate and a Family Council — Lucretia and the Horse-Doctor — The War Hawks — The Great Hockington Find — Hautepierre's Star — The Goose and the Golden Egg — The Making of Marianna — Bobbie and Poetic Justice — The Heart of the Pagan — Once in a Blue Moon — The Marquise Ring — The "Dragon" of Swafton — The Dream of William Elgood — From a London Balcony

Individual short stories

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Contributions to "Punch" Magazine.

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  • "Zeitungs and Gazettings" in Punch, 147 (3824) (21st October, 1914)

Nonfiction

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Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.


This author died in 1942, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 81 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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