A. J. Raffles, A Gentleman-Thief: 27 Crime Tales in One Volume
The Amateur Cracksman, The Black Mask - Raffles: Further Adventures, A Thief in the Night & Mr. Justice RafflesBy E. W. Hornung
Length25h 30m
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A. J. Raffles is an 'amateur cracksman' and a gentleman-thief who with his wit and ingenuity befools everyone to get what he wants. Raffles is an antihero. Although a thief, he never steals from his hosts, he helps old friends in trouble, and in a subsequent volume he may or may not die on the veldt during the Boer War. Additionally, the recognition of the problems of the distribution of wealth is a recurrent subtext throughout the stories. Raffles is, in many ways, a deliberate inversion of Sherlock Holmes on which he is based – he is a "gentleman thief", living at the Albany, a prestigious address in London, playing cricket for the Gentlemen of England and supporting himself by carrying out ingenious burglaries. He is called the "Amateur Cracksman", and often, at first, differentiates between himself and the "professors" – professional criminals from the lower classes.
Content:
The Amateur Cracksman
The Ides of March
A Costume Piece
Gentlemen and Players
Le Premier Pas
Wilful Murder
Nine Points of the Law
The Return Match
The Gift of the Emperor
The Black Mask; or, Raffles: Further Adventures
No Sinecure
A Jubilee Present
The Fate of Faustina
The Last Laugh
To Catch a Thief
An Old Flame
The Wrong House
The Knees of the Gods
A Thief in the Night
Out of Paradise
The Chest of Silver
The Rest Cure
The Criminologists' Club
The Field of Philippi
A Bad Night
A Trap to Catch a Cracksman
The Spoils of Sacrilege
The Raffles Relics
The Last Word
Mr. Justice Raffles
E. W. Hornung (1866–1921) was an English author and poet and also brother-in-law to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Hornung is known for writing the A. J. Raffles series about a gentleman thief based on a deliberate inversion of the Sherlock Holmes series. Hornung dedicated his creation as a form of flattery to Doyle.
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GenreMystery and Thriller, Romance
Length25 hrs 30 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 13, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Ides of March
24The Spoils of Sacrilege
2A Costume Piece
25The Raffles Relics
3Gentlemen and Players
26The Last Word
4Le Premier Pas
27Mr. Justice Raffles
5Wilful Murder
28Chapter I. An Inaugural Banquet
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6Nine Points of the Law
29Chapter II. "His Own Familiar Friend"
7The Return Match
30Chapter III. Council of War
8The Gift of the Emperor
31Chapter IV. "Our Mr. Shylock"
9No Sinecure
32Chapter V. Thin Air
10A Jubilee Present
33Chapter VI. Camilla Belsize
11The Fate of Faustina
34Chapter VII. In Which We Fail to Score
12The Last Laugh
35Chapter VIII. The State of the Case
13To Catch a Thief
36Chapter IX. A Triple Alliance
14An Old Flame
37Chapter X. "My Raffles Right or Wrong"
15The Wrong House
38Chapter XI. A Dash in the Dark
16The Knees of the Gods
39Chapter XII. A Midsummer Night's Dream
17Out of Paradise
40Chapter XIII. Knocked Out
18The Chest of Silver
41Chapter XIV. Corpus Delicti
19The Rest Cure
42Chapter XV. Trial by Raffles
20The Criminologists' Club
43Chapter XVI. Watch and Ward
21The Field of Philippi
44Chapter XVII. A Secret Service
22A Bad Night
45Chapter XVIII. The Death of a Sinner
23A Trap to Catch a Cracksman
46Chapter XIX. Apologia
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