Mr Justice Raffles

Name: Mr Justice Raffles
Author: E. W. Hornung

by E. W. Hornung

Stories featuring Raffles as a retired criminal trying to live respectably

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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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