# Raffles

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- Book: [Raffles](https://www.bookquiver.com/ernest-william-hornung/raffles) ([Raffles.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ernest-william-hornung/raffles.md))
- Authors: [Ernest William Hornung](https://www.bookquiver.com/ernest-william-hornung)
- Publisher: Dover Publications
- ISBN: 978-04-8682-351-5
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2018-05-25
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Dashing man-about-town by day and thief by night, A. J. Raffles offered Victorian readers a new kind of hero, a morally ambiguous character who anticipated the hardboiled detectives of 20th-century crime fiction. Raffles'' position as a professional cricket player and prominent member of society provides the perfect cover for his burglaries. These sparklingly witty stories, narrated by Raffles'' admiring accomplice, inspired numerous stage and screen adaptations.