Four Max Carrados Detective Stories by Ernest Bramah
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Four Max Carrados Detective Stories, by
Ernest Bramah
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Title: Four Max Carrados Detective Stories
Author: Ernest Bramah
Release Date: July 17, 2004 [eBook #12932] [Most recently updated: November 11, 2006]
Language: English
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FOUR MAX CARRADOS DETECTIVE STORIES
by
ERNEST BRAMAH
1914
CONTENTS
THE COIN OF DIONYSIUS
THE KNIGHT'S CROSS SIGNAL PROBLEM
THE TRAGEDY AT BROOKBEND COTTAGE
THE LAST EXPLOIT OF HARRY THE ACTOR
THE COIN OF DIONYSIUS
It was eight o'clock at night and raining, scarcely a time when a business so limited in its clientele as that of a coin dealer could hope to attract any customer, but a light was still showing in the small shop that bore over its window the name of Baxter, and in the even smaller office at the back the proprietor himself sat reading the latest Pall Mall. His enterprise seemed to be justified, for presently the door bell gave its announcement, and throwing down his paper Mr. Baxter went forward.
As a matter of fact the dealer had been expecting someone and his manner as he passed into the shop was unmistakably suggest