TY - BOOK AU - Hornung,E.W. TI - The Amateur Cracksman AV - PR PY - 1996/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - England -- Fiction KW - Detective and mystery stories, English KW - Criminals -- Fiction KW - Raffles (Fictitious character) -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amateur_Cracksman; Release date is 1996-11-01; 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; Produced by Judith Boss. HTML version by Al Haines; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Amateur Cracksman" by E. W. Hornung is a short story collection published in 1899. It introduces A. J. Raffles, a celebrated cricket champion and gentleman of London society who leads a secret double life as a jewel thief. Accompanied by his devoted friend Bunny Manders, Raffles executes daring burglaries targeting London's elite while evading the persistent Inspector Mackenzie of Scotland Yard. This collection of eight stories launched one of literature's most famous criminal characters. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/706 ER -