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Cover illustration for The Knight's Cross Signal Problem

It begins with Max Carrados greeting his friend Carlyle at the door and remarking that he has a mystery about him somewhere. He can hear it in the man's step. The mystery is a railway disaster.

by Ernest Bramah

1 hr 7 minNo. 247

Cover illustration for The Clever Mrs Straithwaite

Mr Carlyle arrives at The Turrets in the very best possible spirits: white spats, a gardenia in the buttonhole, and the bustling importance of a man who is certain he has brought his friend a straightforward piece of business.

by Ernest Bramah

1 hr 4 minNo. 240

Cover illustration for The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage

Tonight, the case widely held to be the finest Max Carrados ever appeared in — and one of the most quietly frightening stories of its decade. A young naval lieutenant comes to the blind detective with something he cannot prove and cannot forget.

by Ernest Bramah

55 minNo. 235

Cover illustration for The Game Played in the Dark & The Tilling Shaw Mystery

A double bill for the blind detective — two more cases from Ernest Bramah. THE GAME PLAYED IN THE DARK By some distance the most famous Carrados story ever written.

by Ernest Bramah

1 hr 53 minNo. 222

Cover illustration for The Last Exploit of Harry the Actor

The whole case turns on one insignificant fact: Max Carrados happened to call on his friend, the inquiry agent Louis Carlyle, at the exact moment Carlyle was leaving for the safe deposit in Lucas Street, Piccadilly.

by Ernest Bramah

1 hr 18 minNo. 213

Cover illustration for The Coin of Dionysius

Tonight the Archive opens on a detective unlike any other: a man who solves his cases entirely without sight.

by Ernest Bramah

42 minNo. 202