Peter Joyce has the toff's languid drawl down to a T. Remember Chariots of Fire, when Lord Lindsay trains for the Olympics by leaping over all the brimming champagne glasses balanced by his butler on top of the hurdles? Raffles puts champagne corks on the spikes above steel entry gates, throws his tailcoat over the top and he's off. Most satisfying of all are the rocks worn by the society hostesses to whose homes he has been invited. Raffles's preference is cat burgling, his target the jewellery shops around the corner in Bond Street. His first job was a bank, but that was by pure chance, he tells his boggle-eyed trainee accomplice, Bunny, his former fag at Harrow. Raffles, the literary creation some seventy odd years ago of E. A lot of gems, because to finance his lavish lifestyle, old Harrovian AJ Raffles - who lives in Albany, belongs to the best clubs, plays cricket at Lord's for the Gentlemen against the Players and gambles heavily - is a jewel thief. This play produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company has as its chief characters A. These stories about the Victorian dandy who has become a byword for quintessential, if not quite establishment, Englishness isn't remotely serious. He is famous for 'Bangsian Fantasy' genre in which famous literary characters or historical individuals meet and interact in the afterlife.T he 'Classics' shelf of my audio library is stacked with Homer, Chaucer, Austen, Tolstoy, Twain, Dickens and Hardy, but classics don't have to be long or serious or heavy-going or all three.

John Kendrick Bangs (1862–1922) was an American author, editor and satirist. Hornung dedicated his creation as a form of flattery to Doyle. His old schoolfellow, the celebrated English cricketer AJ Raffles knows just the person to help a fellow out. Bunny Manders desperately needs ready cash to repay a gambling debt. Raffles series about a gentleman thief based on a deliberate inversion of the Sherlock Holmes series. Based on the stories by E W Hornung, Episode 1 00:00 The Ides of March.

Hornung (1866–1921) was an English author and poet and also brother-in-law to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventure of The Dorrington Ruby Seal THE SEQUELS TO THE ORIGINAL SERIES by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS The Black Mask or Raffles: Further Adventures Holmes & Co.' is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Between 18, Hornung wrote a series of 26 short stories, two plays, and a novel about Raffles and his fictional chronicler, Harry 'Bunny' Manders.

This carefully crafted ebook: 'THE COMPLETE RAFFLES SERIES – 45+ Short Stories & A Novel in One Volume: The Amateur Cracksman, The Black Mask, A Thief in the Night, Mr. Raffles is a British fictional character a cricketer and gentleman thief created by E.

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