A selection of the best classic crime stories featuring the much-loved rogue Raffles 'Why
should I work when I could steal? Why settle down to some humdrum uncongenial billet when
excitement romance danger and a decent living were all going begging together? Of course
it's very wrong but we can't all be moralists' Dashing man about town first-class cricketer
and master burglar: Raffles is the ultimate gentleman thief. Here we find the debonair rogue
cracking a jeweller's safe on Bond Street stealing from the nouveau riche spiriting away a
priceless pearl outwitting the law at every turn - and of course bowling like a demon - all
with the assistance of his plucky sidekick Bunny Manders. This new selection of Ernest
Hornung's much-loved crime stories is taken from his three Raffles collections The Amateur
Cracksman The Black Mask and A Thief in the Night .
