The Mysteries of Max Carrados

Max Carrados, the celebrated blind detective appeared in a series of mystery stories and books written by Ernest Bramah, first published in 1914. The Max Carrados stories appeared alongside Sherlock Holmes stories in the Strand Magazine and Bramah was often billed above Arthur Conan Doyle. The Carrados stories frequently outsold the Holmes stories at the time, even if they have failed to achieve the same longevity.

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In The Eyes of Max Carrados, our blind hero, who can read a newspaper headline with the touch of his fingers and shoot a villain by aiming at the sound of his beating heart, discovers a story of murder, suicide and a desperate daughter’s quest to clear her father’s name.

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The Ingenious Mind of Rigby Lacksome - Max Carrados is lured to Stratford-upon-Avon following an explosion by a band of determined suffragettes. Faced with the ingenious mind of Mr Rigby Lacksome, Carrados and his trusty servant Parkinson must solve the riddle of the missing body of William Shakespeare.

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The Secret of Headlam Height – As the First World War rapidly approaches, we arrive in a sleepy south coast town where Max Carrados, the celebrated blind detective, is soon investigating the sudden death of the local museum curator. All is not as it seems, as our blind hero finds himself on the cliff top in a duel to the death with the ruthless German spymaster, the only one who knows the secret of Headlam Height.

Cast: Simon Callow as Max Carrados, Lionel Jeffries as Parkinson, with Stephen Tompkinson, Philip Glenister, Teresa Gallagher, Charles Simpson, Brett Usher, Lynsey Baxter, Matthew Marsh, Marianne Morley, Michael Beint, David Bannerman, Steve Hodson, Kathryn Pogson, Paul Panting, Brian Orrell, Oona Benson, Deidra Morris, Ian Armstrong, Robert Oates and a full supporting cast.

Based on the stories by Ernest Bramah.
Dramatised by Bert Coules, Roger Danes, Sue Rodwell.
Music: Robert Rigby
Director: Alan Drury
Producer: Stewart Richards & Michael Cameron
First broadcast by BBC Radio 4 in 1997.

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