Product Description
This work tells the tale of A.J. Raffles. Undoubtedly a gentleman, he lives in Piccadilly, and is one of England's finest cricketers. Courted by the great, the rich and the fashionable and invited to their houses, he robs them at night.
Reviews:
catsalive (Australia) (2008/08/23): Book Description Gentleman thief Raffles is daring, debonair, devilishly handsome-and a first-rate cricketer. In these eight stories, the master burglar indulges his passion for cricket and crime: stealing jewels from a country house, outwitting the law, pilfering from the nouveau riche, and, of course, bowling like a demon-all with the assistance of his plucky sidekick, Bunny. Encouraged by his brother-in-law, Arthur Conan Doyle, to write a series about a public school villain, and influenced by his own experiences at Uppingham, E. W. Hornung created a unique form of crime story, where, in stealing as in sport, it is playing the game that counts, and there is always honor among thieves.
