Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman

Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman image
ISBN-10:

0141439335

ISBN-13:

9780141439334

Author(s): HORNUNG, E.W.
Edition: Revised
Released: Aug 26, 2003
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Format: Mass Market Paperback, 240 pages
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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.












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