Coin of Dionysius

Reader: Mike Harris
Title: “The Coin of Dionysius”
Characters: Baxter, Carlisle, Carrados
Author: Ernest Bramah Smith, English, 1868-1942
Genres: Horror, Supernatural Fiction, Detective Fiction

From the reader: Max Carrados is a fictional blind detective in a series of mystery stories and books by Ernest Bramah, beginning in 1914. The Max Carrados stories appeared alongside Sherlock Holmes in The Strand Magazine, in which they often had top billing, and frequently outsold his eminent contemporary at the time, even if they failed to achieve the longevity of Holmes.
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​Age 16, having been near bottom in every subject, the author quit school.