E. W. Hornung

A Thief in the Night

Collection of Raffles stories depicting an educated burglar's daring robberies

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E. W. Hornung
E. W. Hornung

Hornung was Arthur Conan Doyle's brother-in-law and created the gentleman thief Raffles as a deliberate inversion of the Sherlock Holmes archetype. The Raffles stories are among the most elegant examples of late Victorian crime fiction.

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