Gentleman 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.
- ISBN10 0140000631
- ISBN13 9780140000634
- Publish Date 27 May 1976 (first published December 1955)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 January 1992
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 256
- Language English