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Raffles believes that bowling provides good mental practice for "always looking for the weak spot", and Bunny, while watching Raffles play, notices how Raffles's skills as a cricketer overlap with his skills as a thief: "What I admired, and what I remember, was the combination of resource and cunning, of patience and precision, of head-work and ...
1904 Collier's illustration by J. C. Leyendecker. A. J. Raffles is a British fictional character – a cricketer and gentleman thief – created by E. W. Hornung.Between 1898 and 1909, Hornung wrote a series of 26 short stories, two plays, and a novel about Raffles and his fictional chronicler, Harry "Bunny" Manders.
The Amateur Cracksman is an 1899 short story collection by E. W. Hornung.It was published in the UK by Methuen & Co., London, and in the US by Scribner's, New York. [1] Many later editions (T. Nelson & Sons, 1914; University of Nebraska Press, 1976; et al.) expand the title to Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman.
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Mr. Justice Raffles is a 1909 novel written by E.W. Hornung.It featured his popular character A. J. Raffles a well-known cricketer and gentleman thief.It was the fourth and last in his four Raffles books which had begun with The Amateur Cracksman in 1899. [1]
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The Return of A. J. Raffles, first produced and published in 1975, is an Edwardian comedy play in three acts, written by Graham Greene and based somewhat loosely on E. W. Hornung's characters in The Amateur Cracksman. [1]