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5 Responses to “The Amateur Cracksman”

1. Johnny Heering Says:
   December 16th, 2009 at 4:24 am

   This book is a reproduction (including printing errors) of a book originally published in 1907. It collects short stories about A.J. Raffles, “The Amateur Cracksman”. Raffles is a gentleman and a cricket player, who supports himself by carrying out ingenious burglaries. His stories are told by his accomplace “Bunny”. There are eight stories here, ending with a story in which Raffles and Bunny are finally arrested. That was probably the author’s attempt to end the series, but he later wrote more Raffles stories due to popular demand. These stories are quite entertaining.
   Rating: 4 / 5

2. Gagewyn Says:
   December 16th, 2009 at 5:44 am

   Yep this book pretty much gives you a take on what would happen if genius detective Sherlock Holmes were instead genius cat burglar Justice Raffles. Raffles commits high collar petty theft for fun and profit. He steals jewelry etc and uses his connections as a gentleman to sniff out new opportunities. At one point as he describes the many middle men involved in reselling a piece of stolen jewelry as he explains to Bunny how crime doesn’t pay – financially anyway. Often he steals something just because of the challenge involved in stealing it, which leads to interesting and varied stories for us to read. Bunny is his unwitting and later witting accomplice. He narrates the stories, as a sort of Watson to Raffles’ Holmes.

   These were very charming stories. If you like Sherlock Holmes and other victorian fiction then you will probably like these.
   Rating: 5 / 5

3. Gagewyn Says:
   December 16th, 2009 at 7:26 am

   Yep this book pretty much gives you a take on what would happen if genius detective Sherlock Holmes were instead genius cat burglar Justice Raffles. Raffles commits high collar petty theft for fun and profit. He steals jewelry etc and uses his connections as a gentleman to sniff out new opportunities. At one point as he describes the many middle men involved in reselling a piece of stolen jewelry as he explains to Bunny how crime doesn’t pay – financially anyway. Often he steals something just because of the challenge involved in stealing it, which leads to interesting and varied stories for us to read. Bunny is his unwitting and later witting accomplice. He narrates the stories, as a sort of Watson to Raffles’ Holmes.

   These were very charming stories. If you like Sherlock Holmes and other victorian fiction then you will probably like these.
   Rating: 5 / 5

4. Gagewyn Says:
   December 16th, 2009 at 8:14 am

   Yep this book pretty much gives you a take on what would happen if genius detective Sherlock Holmes were instead genius cat burglar Justice Raffles. Raffles commits high collar petty theft for fun and profit. He steals jewelry etc and uses his connections as a gentleman to sniff out new opportunities. At one point as he describes the many middle men involved in reselling a piece of stolen jewelry as he explains to Bunny how crime doesn’t pay – financially anyway. Often he steals something just because of the challenge involved in stealing it, which leads to interesting and varied stories for us to read. Bunny is his unwitting and later witting accomplice. He narrates the stories, as a sort of Watson to Raffles’ Holmes.

   These were very charming stories. If you like Sherlock Holmes and other victorian fiction then you will probably like these.
   Rating: 5 / 5

5. Gagewyn Says:
   December 16th, 2009 at 8:21 am

   Yep this book pretty much gives you a take on what would happen if genius detective Sherlock Holmes were instead genius cat burglar Justice Raffles. Raffles commits high collar petty theft for fun and profit. He steals jewelry etc and uses his connections as a gentleman to sniff out new opportunities. At one point as he describes the many middle men involved in reselling a piece of stolen jewelry as he explains to Bunny how crime doesn’t pay – financially anyway. Often he steals something just because of the challenge involved in stealing it, which leads to interesting and varied stories for us to read. Bunny is his unwitting and later witting accomplice. He narrates the stoires, as a sort of Watson to Raffles’ Holmes.

   These were very charming stoires. If you like Sherlock Holmes and other victorian fiction then you will probably like these.

   I haven’t read this particular ebook version and have no idea how good it’s quality is. You can download the text for free at Gutenburg Project.
   Rating: 5 / 5

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