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Athletic, attractive, amorous and villainous A.J. Raffles is virtually the mirror-image of Sherlock Holmes. Small wonder, considering that he was created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle s brother-in-law E.W. Hornung . The master thief shares his Christian name with Holmes creator, and the 1892 Conan Doyle story The Doings of Raffles Haw may have provided his surname. The dedication for the first volume of Raffles adventures The Amateur Cracksman reads: To ACD this form of… More >>

Raffles the Gentleman Thief Collection

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Here are more of E. W. Hornung’s famous stories of adventure and crime featuring the thrill seeking A. J. Raffles and his friend, accomplice and chronicler ‘Bunny’. By turns urbane gentleman about town and accomplished cricketer, life is just too ordinary for Raffles and that sets him on a series of adventures that have long been treasured as a real antidote to the ‘white knights’ who are the usual heroes of the crime fiction of this period. This book, the second an… More >>

The Complete Raffles: 2-A Thief in the Night & Mr Justice Raffles

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Ernest William Hornung (1866-1921) was an English author. He spent most of his life in England and France, but in 1884 left for Australia and stayed for two years. Although his Australian experience had been so short, it coloured most of his literary work from A Bride from the Bush (1890), to Old Offenders and a Few Old Scores (1923) which appeared after his death. He published the poems Bond and Free and Wooden Crosses in The Times. The character of A. J. Raffles, … More >>

A Thief in the Night: a Book of Raffles’ Adventures