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Настоящий подарок всем поклонникам жанра! Захватывающие детективы от лучших авторов! Здесь вы найдете как произведения всемирно известных писателей – А. Конан Дойла, Г. К. Честертона, Р. Говарда, Э. Уоллеса, Э. А. По, так и рассказы редко издаваемых, но не менее интересных авторов. Если вы хотите прочесть классические истории любимых авторов или открыть новые имена…

Очередная история с участием слепого детектива Макса Каррадоса.

Старый добрый английский детектив… Чопорные британцы времен королевы Виктории одинаково симпатизировали и смелым сыщикам, и находчивым ворам, если последние нарушали закон, следуя… правилам! Ведь главное — оставаться джентльменом! Не только Артур Конан Дойл и Гилберт Кийт Честертон — Чарльз Диккенс, Джером К. Джером, Герберт Уэллс и многие их современники долгое…

В 1991 году жанру детективного рассказа исполнилось 150 лет. Родоначальником его был Эдгар По, а стремительное развитие жанра в конце XIX - начале XX в. привело к появлению таких замечательных мастеров детектива, как А. Конан Дойл и Агата Кристи. В сборник "Загадка миссис Дикинсон" наряду с рассказами этих писателей вошли произведения Николаса Картера, Мориса Лебланка, Олдоса Хаксли и другие.

Отчаянная необходимость узнать, подлинник монета Дионисия или же фальшивка, приводит частного детектива Карлайла в дом нумизмата-любителя Каррадоса. Но чем ему может помочь слепец?

Детектив из цикла "Макс Каррадос".

Max Carrados, a fictional detective series, was first introduced to the literary world by Ernest Bramah in 1914. In the Edwardian era, Carrados' stories often outsold Sherlock Holmes, with the blind detective sharing top billing with his fictional rival.

George Orwell wrote that together with those of Conan Doyle, they were "the only detective stories since Poe that are worth rereading".

Recorded by national treasure Stephen Fry, 'The Coin of Dionysius' and 'The Game Played in the Dark' are two short stories from the collection.

In 'The Coin of Dionysius' we first meet the suave sleuth Max Carrados, as he is called on by old friend Louis Carlyle to help determine whether an old coin is real or a clever fake.

In 'The Game Played in the Dark', Max Carrados is contacted by the British Museum about a horde of stolen ancient coins. On the lookout for the coins, he is intrigued by the approach of an Italian lady who takes him from the safety of his study to a meeting with some recognisable former adversaries....

Stephen Fry is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter, film director and all round national treasure.

Fry has written and presented several documentary series, contributed columns and articles for newspapers and magazines, appears frequently on radio, reads for voice-overs and has written four novels and three volumes of autobiography, Moab Is My Washpot, The Fry Chronicles and his latest, More Fool Me.

That-s how the Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection hails the adventures of Max Carrados. Ellery Queen calls this first volume of his adventures, "One of the ten best volumes of detective shorts ever written!" Blinded in an accident, Carrados developed remarkable abilities. He can read newspaper headlines with a touch of his fingers, recognize a friend he has not seen in twenty-five years by his voice, and detect a man wearing a false moustache because "he carries a five-yard aura of spirit gum." Nor did his loss of sight affect his sense of humor, his compassion, or a sense of justice which forces him to skirt the law to see the innocent is protected and the guilty punished. As the author puts it, Carrados' blindness "-but so far from crippling his interests in life or his energies, it has merely impelled him to develop those senses which in most of us lie dormant and practically unused. Thus you will understand that while he may be at a disadvantage while you are at an advantage, he is at an advantage while you are at a disadvantage." Working with his old friend, Louis Carlyle, a private investigator, the wealthy Carrados pursues his talent for detection whenever he pleases without accepting a fee. The exchanges between the humorless Carlyle, eager for Carrados help but unwilling to admit his bafflement, and the gentle malice of the perceptive Carrados are among the high spots of the stories.