Max Carrados is one of the most unusual detectives in all fiction. He is blind - and yet he has developed his other faculties to such an amazing degree that they more than compensate for his lack of sight.'Lose one sense and the others, touch, taste, smell, hearing improve...with a little dedicated training.' Carrados can read a newspaper headline with the touch of his fingers, detect a man wearing a false moustache because 'he carries a five yard aura of spirit gum' and shoot a villain by aiming at the sound of his beating heart.Assisted by his sharp-eyed manservant, Parker, Carrados is the mystery-solver par excellence.Here is a collection of the best of Max Carrados, a set of storiesfeaturing a series of baffling puzzles to challenge the greatest of detectives.