E. W. Hornung

A Thief In The Night (eBook, ePUB)

A Book Of Raffles' Adventures

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Classic Crime Press presents you A Thief in the Night: a Book of Raffles' Adventures in a fantastic ebook edition.

 

A Thief in the Night is a 1905 collection of short stories by Ernest William Hornung, featuring his popular character A. J. Raffles. It was the third book in the series, and the final collection of short stories. In it, Raffles, a gentleman thief, commits a number of burglaries in late Victorian England.

 

Chronicler and accomplice Bunny Manders narrates additional adventures which he had previously omitted, from various points in their criminal careers. A full-length Raffles novel, Mr. Justice Raffles, would follow in 1909. It too was set before the Boer War, with Raffles in his heyday as a gentlemen thief.

 

Stories included in the book are:

 

Out of Paradise

The Chest of Silver

The Rest Cure

The Criminologists' Club

The Field of Phillipi

A Bad Night

A Trap to Catch a Cracksman

The Spoils of Sacrilege

The Raffles Relics

The Last Word

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dead Dodo Crime Classics
• Seitenzahl: 255
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781508081258
• Artikelnr.: 60079220

Autorenporträt

Author and poet Ernest William Hornung was born on June 7, 1866, in Marton, Middlesbrough. Hornung was given the nickname Willie at a young age. The A. J. Raffles series of tales, which center on a gentleman burglar in late 19th-century London, is what made him most famous. His friends Lord Alfred Douglas and Oscar Wilde, as well as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, served as inspiration for several of the characters. In 1898, he published ""In the Chains of Crime,"" which introduced Bunny Manders and Raffles. In 1899, the collection of Raffles' short stories was published as a book for sale. In addition to his Raffles tales, Hornung was a prolific fiction author who produced a large number of works between 1890 and 1914. He wrote a lot when he was in France; his son, Oscar, was killed at the Second Battle of Ypres in July 1915. The strain of his wartime duties significantly deteriorated Hornung's already poor constitution. On the train, he had a chill that developed into influenza and pneumonia, which led to his death on March 22, 1921, at the age of 54. In the south of France, in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, he was laid to rest.