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Grimes, Martha
Martha Grimes is an American author of detective stories born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her father, a lawyer, died when she was six years old and she and her brother grew up with their mother, a busy businesswoman who managed the Mountain Lake Hotel in West Maryland. After leaving high school she attended the University of Maryland, College Park, graduating with a BA in English in 1954 and an...
Literary figures
Max Carrados
Gender: Male
He was born as Max Wynn, and become blind after an accident. A relative let him inherit a fortune on condition that he adopted the surname Carrados. He is tall and handsome, but unmarried, and he solves criminal cases as a hobby. Max Wynn Carrados’ other senses are extremely acute; he can, for example, read the paper with his finger tops, author Ernest Bramah (an alias for Ernest Smith) claims.