"There are few finer examples of short-story writing in our language than these," declared Arthur Conan Doyle of author E. Raffles, who debuted in 1898, offered Victorian readers a new kind of hero: a morally ambiguous character who anticipated the hardboiled detectives of 20th-century crime fiction. In these sparklingly humorous stories - narrated by Bunny Manders, Raffles' nervous but admiring accomplice - the gentleman thief matches wits with professional criminals, crafty diamond merchants, and other worthy adversaries, including irksome Inspector Mackenzie of Scotland Yard. Raffles' position as a champion cricket player and prominent member of society provides the perfect cover for his daring burglaries. Raffles, a dashing man-about-town by day and a cat burglar by night.
"Why should I work when I could steal?" demands A.
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