The Complete Max Carrados, Volume I

You know Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street. Now meet… Max Carrados of The Turrets, Richmond "Together with those of Conan Doyle and R. Austin Freeman, [Max Carrados] are the only detective stories since Poe that are worth re-reading." George Orwell - A Kind of Compulsion (1903-1936) In the late 1800's and early 1900's, the usefulness of consulting detectives in the war against crime was very well established by Mr. Sherlock Holmes. By the early Twentieth Century, Holmes had retired to Sussex, and the void he left behind in London was capably filled by a number of other noted criminal specialists: Solar Pons, Hercule Poirot, Dr. John Thorndyke, Father Brown, Albert Campion, and Lord Peter Wimsey, to name a few. But another who made a name for himself with his unique skills tends to receive less attention today: Max Carrados. The first Carrados short story, "The Coin of Dionysius" was published in the August 17th, 1913 issue of News of the World - and the world was introduced to the master