The Specimen Case
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A01=Ernest Bramah
Author_Ernest Bramah
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Product details
- ISBN 9789357315524
- Dimensions: 183 x 121mm
- Publication Date: 20 Jun 2025
- Publisher: Hachette Book Publishing India Pvt Ltd
- Publication City/Country: IN
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Specimen Case is a collection of twenty-one short stories written by Bramah over three decades. Two stories feature his most successful characters, the Chinese storyteller Kai Lung (‘Ming-Tsuen and the Emergency’) and the blind detective Max Carrados (‘The Bunch of Violets’). The sci-fi story ‘The War Hawks’ serves as a sequel to his influential novel What Might Have Been (1907), acknowledged by George Orwell for its impact on Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Ernest Bramah Smith was born in Manchester, England, in 1868. At 16, he dropped out of Manchester Grammar School, with a poor academic record and went into farming, first as a farm pupil and then in his own right. It was while farming that Bramah began to contribute local vignettes to the Birmingham News. He eventually obtained a position as secretary to Jerome K. Jerome and rose to become editor of one of Jerome’s magazines. Bramah attained success with his creation of Kai Lung, a wandering Chinese storyteller. In 1914, Bramah created Max Carrados, a blind detective, (arguably amongst the first if not actually the first) and wrote many stories that established him as a staple in detective fiction.
