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By Hornung E. W.
E. W. Hornung, 2018
A. J. Raffles, a man of high society and a skilled cricketer, leads a double life as a daring cat burglar. These humorous stories, narrated by his admiring accomplice Bunny Manders, follow Raffles as he outwits criminals, jewelers, and Scotland Yard's Inspector Mackenzie. Debuting in 1898, Raffles presented Victorian readers with a morally complex hero, foreshadowing the hardboiled detectives of later crime fiction. Arthur Conan Doyle praised these tales as exceptional short stories.