Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman

Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman

by E.W. Hornung (Methuen, 1899)

audiobook read by David Rintoul (Paul Kent, 2013)

Book cover: “Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman” by E.W. Hornung (Methuen, 1899); audiobook read by David Rintoul (Paul Kent, 2013)

A collection of sequentially linked short stories featuring roguish gentleman thief A.J. Raffles and his accomplice ‘Bunny’, who narrates. The dynamic is very Holmes/Watson (perhaps unsurprisingly, as Hornung was Conan Doyle’s brother-in-law) but the escapades themselves fall flat, despite Hornung’s accomplished prose.

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