Ernest Bramahhumorous works were ranked with Jerome K. Jerome and W. W. Jacobs, his detective stories with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H. G. Wells and his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood. George Orwell acknowledged that Bramah's book, What Might Have Been, influenced his Nineteen Eighty-Four. Bramah created the characters Kai Lung and Max Carrados.
This selection chosen by the critic August Nemocontains the following stories:
— The Secret of Headlam Height
— The Mystery of the Vanished Petition Crown
— The Holloway Flat Tragedy
— The Curious Circumstances Of The Two Left Shoes
— The Ingenious Mind Of Mr. Rigby Lacksome
— The Crime At The House In Culver Street
— The Strange Case Of Cyril Bycourt
