The Clever Mrs. Straithwaite | A Max Carrados story by Ernest Bramah | Read by Simon Stanhope скачать в хорошем качестве

The Clever Mrs. Straithwaite | A Max Carrados story by Ernest Bramah | Read by Simon Stanhope

Louis Carlyle seeks help from his friend Max Carrados in a high profile case involving a young society beauty and possible insurance fraud, concerning a valuable pearl necklace which may or may not have been stolen. Unfortunately Max is about to leave for Paris to attend a rare coin auction – can he solve the mystery in the few hours available before he has to catch the boat at Dover...? The story starts at 00:00:59 Narrated/performed by Simon Stanhope, aka Bitesized Audio. If you enjoy this content and would like to help me keep creating, there are a few ways you can support me (and get access to bonus content): Monthly support on Patreon:   / bitesizedaudio   Occasional/one-off support via Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bitesize... Donate via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted... Visit my Bandcamp page to hear more of my performances of classic stories, and you can purchase and download high quality audio files to listen offline: https://bitesizedaudio.bandcamp.com/ Become a Bitesized Audio Classics member on YouTube, from $1 / £1 / €1 per month:    / bitesizedaudioclassics   00:00:00 Narrator's Introduction 00:00:59 The Clever Mrs. Straithwaite 01:05:43 Credits, thanks and further listening If you'd like to hear more stories featuring Max Carrados, I've previously recorded eight of his adventures, available here:    • Max Carrados Stories by Ernest Bramah | A ...   and here:    • The Curious Circumstances of the Two Left ...   Or for a selection of other classic detective stories, including Sherlock Holmes, Loveday Brooke, Dr. Thorndyke, Father Brown, Martin Hewitt, the Old Man in the Corner, and more, do take a look at my "Victorian and Edwardian Detective Stories" podcast:    • Victorian & Edwardian Detective Stories   About the author: Ernest Bramah (1868–1942) was born Ernest Bramah Smith, probably in or near Manchester, where he attended grammar school. An intensely private man, very little information is known about his personal life. His early career included a stint as assistant to Jerome K. Jerome; his first success as a writer came as a contributor of humorous sketches somewhat in the manner of Jerome, to newspapers and periodicals, and he later became editor of one of Jerome's magazines. As an author he is best remembered for creating two characters: Kai Lung, a Chinese storyteller who appeared in a number of humorous stories from 1900; and Max Carrados, the blind detective, created in 1913. He also wrote science fiction, and his 1907 novel 'What Might Have Been' (also known as 'The Secret of the League') is a dystopian story which was acknowledged by George Orwell as a major influence on his own 'Nineteen Eighty-four'. Orwell was also a great admirer of the Max Carrados stories, bracketing them with Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Freeman's Dr Thorndyke as "the only detective stories since Poe that are worth re-reading". The character of Carrados appeared in more than 25 short stories and novels between 1913 and 1934, and by the 1920s was more popular than Sherlock Holmes (whose later cases appeared alongside Carrados in The Strand Magazine). His blindness proves no obstacle to his detective skills; indeed his other senses are heightened and he regularly outwits criminals and fellow detectives alike. Ernest Bramah Smith died in June 1942, aged 74, in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. He was survived by his wife Lucy Smith. 'The Clever Mrs. Straithwaite' is one of the earliest Max Carrados stories, and first appeared in two parts in The News of the World, on 21st and 28th September 1913. Recording © Bitesized Audio 2025