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The Amateur Cracksman is an 1899 short story collection by E. W. Hornung. It was published in the UK by Methuen & Co., London, and in the US by Scribner's, New York. Many later editions (T. Nelson & Sons, 1914; University of Nebraska Press, 1976; et al.) expand the title to Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman.
- E. W. Hornung
- 1899
THE AMATEUR CRACKSMAN. CONTENTS. 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. It was half-past twelve when I returned to the Albany as a last desperate resort. The scene of my disaster was much as I had left it.
1 de nov. de 1996 · Nov 1, 1996. Most Recently Updated. Oct 23, 2021. Copyright Status. Public domain in the USA. Downloads. 368 downloads in the last 30 days. Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free! Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
- E. W. Hornung
- English
- 1899
- The Amateur Cracksman
3.58. 2,471 ratings318 reviews. Gentleman thief Raffles is daring, debonair, devilishly handsome-and a first-rate cricketer. In these eight stories, the master burglar indulges his passion for cricket and crime: stealing jewels from a country house, outwitting the law, pilfering from the nouveau riche, and, of course, bowling like a demon-all ...
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Ernest William Hornung. Publication date. 1902. Topics. raffles, cracksman, amateur, ides, von, emperor, shook, mackenzie, stood, cried, amateur cracksman, costume piece, return match, premier pas, wilful murder, lord amersteth, von heumann, sir bernard, public domain, raffles looked. Publisher. C. Scribner's Sons. Collection. americana.
20 de out. de 2006 · The Amateur Cracksman is the first collection of stories about A. J. Raffles, gentleman, cricketer, and thief. After stopping his old school friend, Bunny Manders, from a desperate attempt at suicide, Raffles introduces the unsuspecting Bunny to a new way of earning a living, burglary.
First published in 1899, The Amateur Cracksman was the first collection of stories detailing the exploits and intrigues of gentleman thief A. J. Raffles in late Victorian England. Raffles was...
