Raffles, the Amateur CracksmanGentleman 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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Contents
Acknowledgements | vii |
Chronology | viii |
Introduction | xvii |
Further Reading | xlviii |
A Note on the Text | lvii |
The Amateur Cracksman | 1 |
THE IDES OF MARCH | 3 |
A COSTUME PIECE | 23 |
GENTLEMEN AND PLAYERS | 39 |
LE PREMIER PAS | 57 |
WILFUL MURDER | 73 |
NINE POINTS OF THE LAW | 87 |
THE RETURN MATCH | 103 |
THE GIFT OF THE EMPEROR | 118 |
Notes | 141 |
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