# The Specimen Case

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- Authors: [Ernest Bramah](https://www.bookquiver.com/ernest-bramah)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2026-02-05

## Description

The Specimen Case is a collection of twenty-one short stories written by Bramah over three decades. Two stories feature his most successful characters, the Chinese storyteller Kai Lung (‘Ming-Tsuen and the Emergency’) and the blind detective Max Carrados (‘The Bunch of Violets’). The sci-fi story ‘The War Hawks’ serves as a sequel to his influential novel What Might Have Been (1907), acknowledged by George Orwell for its impact on Nineteen Eighty-Four.

## Editions

### The Specimen Case

- Publisher: hachette_india_little_brown
- ISBN: 978-93-5731-552-4
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2026-02-05
- Language: en_GB