The Complete Raffles

A.J. Raffles, The Gentleman Thief #1-4

by E.W. Hornung, Sarah Morrissey (Editor), Genevieve Morrissey (Editor)

This book contains the full text of E. W. Hornung's Raffles stories with extensive annotations, as well as more than 200 illustrations that accompanied them in the magazines and newspapers where they originally appeared. A. J. Raffles, gentleman thief, was once a household name, and his stories once rivaled those of Sherlock Holmes in popularity — and in fact Hornung and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were brothers-in-law. Hornung was married to Conan Doyle’s sister Constance.

Genres: Mystery, Fiction

1133 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

Ernest William Hornung known as Willie, was an English author, most famous for writing the Raffles series of novels about a gentleman thief in late Victorian London.

In addition to his novels and short stories Hornung wrote some war verse, and a play based on the Raffles stories was produced successfully. He was much interested in cricket, and was "a man of large and generous nature, a delightful companion and conversationalist".