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[Romuel Reyson]

hello everyone
i was just planning to read books about thief
but lupin is the only thief that i know
can i ask for any similar characters that you knew?
thanks

[James]

Try the Dortmunder Novels By Donald E. Westlake the first is The Hot RockThere are 15 altogether

[Mark]

Arthur J. Raffles is a character created in the 1890s by E. W. Hornung, a brother-in-law to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._J._Ra...

[Feliks]

The Dortmunder novels? Quite a jump from 1913 to 1970.

OP, check out this discussion for Wilkie Collins' 'The Woman in White'.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

In this thread, there's a place where I went to some trouble to list out all the significant British detective mysteries from Charles Dickens onward. You're sure to find something you like.

BTW, you may want to specifically go for Collins' "The Moonstone" (arguably his most famous novel) for a cracking-good mystery set in the Victorian era, (shortly before the days of Raffles and Arsene Lupin).

[Lora]

G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown series starts with "The Blue Cross", which has a great thief character in it. He doesn't factor in in quite the same way in later stories, but still shows up from time to time.

[Mark]

Lora wrote: "G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown series starts with "The Blue Cross", which has a great thief character in it. He doesn't factor in in quite the same way in later stories, but still shows up from tim..."

Your question is??

[Karl]

The Gorse-trilogy by Patrick Hamilton, about con-man and reluctant murderer Ralph Gorse. And -The Saint -of course!

Readers of the scandinavian languages should also take notice of Alf B. Bryn's novels of the gentleman/millionaire and sometime burglar Peter van Heeren, published in the 30s.

[Lora]

Sorry, i had no question. I was just adding to the conversation. Does that make my reply clearer?

[Mark]

Lora wrote: "Sorry, i had no question. I was just adding to the conversation. Does that make my reply clearer?"

Yes, I was not paying attention.

[Lora]

No worries. Me, I often read way too fast to get the whole gist of something. I miss out on some pretty salient points that way.

[Mark]

Lora wrote: "No worries. Me, I often read way too fast to get the whole gist of something. I miss out on some pretty salient points that way."

I did a little research and the character you refer to is: M. Hercule Flambeau is a fictional character created by English novelist G. K. Chesterton who appears in the five volumes of in total 48 short stories, of the Father Brown series. His name is the French word for a flaming torch.

[Lora]

Yes, but I warn folks looking for him to be in every story: he's not. He's at his best in The Blue Cross. The stories are about Father Brown, and he has some supporting cast, but most of the time the rest of the characters in any given story are only therefor that particular story.
I'm going to go check out that list mentioned above. I like this kind of stuff. Right now I'm actually on the side of the law, so to speak, with the first Lord Peter Wimsey book.