{"id":18916,"date":"2018-02-10T00:01:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T06:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/?p=18916"},"modified":"2018-02-10T14:06:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T20:06:41","slug":"audiobook-review-tales-max-carrados","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/audiobook-review-tales-max-carrados\/","title":{"rendered":"Audiobook Review: Tales of Max Carrados"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ss&#038;ref=as_ss_li_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=adamsblog03-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=B01ATTRCSY&#038;asins=B01ATTRCSY&#038;linkId=2e6082c7120eccd07573c7208f954093&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Max Carrados is one of those easily overlooked figures of detective fiction&#8217;s golden age. He&#8217;s thrown into a mass of detectives that entertained readers in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Like many of them, he&#8217;s been mostly forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, Carrados is worth checking out. If you like Sherlock Holmes and Father Brown, Carrados will be right up your alley.<\/p>\n<p>Carrados was created by\u00a0Ernest Bramah. Carrados was a blind man and compensated for the loss of his sight to such a degree that he became a first-class amateur detective. He often assisted a private investigator named Carlisle as well as the official police. He&#8217;s assisted by his observant and able manservant Parkinson.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tales of Max Carrados<\/em> is audiobook released by Audible and is read by British Actor\/Comedian Stephen Fry (Fry and Laurie).<\/p>\n<p>The stories are generally solid mysteries that are remarkably clever and well-written for the most part. The stories have a light and fun tone. Carrados solves a variety of cases, mostly of the non-murderous variety. The supporting characters are well-written and intriguing. I found myself wanting to know more about a few of them. The stories include Carrados&#8217; work during the War and a case that involves Britain&#8217;s militant suffragettes.<\/p>\n<p>A few cases involve Carrados in peril and how he handles himself. &#8220;The Game Played in the Dark&#8221; is a classic example and is quite suspenseful. The last story is in the same vein but with heightened stakes. In &#8220;The Missing Witness Sensation,&#8221; Carrados is a key witness in the trial of an IRA member and is abducted off the street and taken to a country house and locked up in the basement. Eventually, the blind man&#8217;s left alone without food or water and without any of the aides that he&#8217;s relied on the past. It&#8217;s all that shakes the generally unflappable detective. It&#8217;s fascinating to see how he gets out of it.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t much care for the first story. &#8220;The Coin of Dionysus&#8221; introduces Carrados but contains too much actionless exposition and goes on too long for what it offers as a mystery. Other than that, the stories are all quite enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p>Fry is a fantastic narrator and infuses the story with a great deal of warmth and charm. He infuses each character with so much personality, I almost forgot I was listening to an\u00a0audiobook rather than an audio drama. I&#8217;d definitely love to listen to him read again.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line: If you like Golden Age Mysteries and listen to audiobooks, this is a title that&#8217;s well worth a listen.<\/p>\n<p>Rating: 4.25 out of 5<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; color: #444444; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; -ms-word-wrap: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial;\"><em>This post contains affiliate links, which means that items purchased from these links may result in a commission being paid to the author of this post at no extra cost to the purchaser.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; color: #444444; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; -ms-word-wrap: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial;\"><em>If<\/em>\u00a0you<em>\u00a0enjoyed this post, you can have new posts about Detective stories and the golden age of radio and television delivered\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004U8SET2\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=adamsblog03-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B004U8SET2\">automatically to your kindle.\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Carrados is one of those easily overlooked figures of detective fiction&#8217;s golden age. 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