Details

Subject(s)

• Detective and mystery stories, English [Browse]
• Criminals—Fiction [Browse]
• England—Fiction [Browse]
• Raffles (Fictitious character)—Fiction [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Fiction [Browse]

Series

• Oxford popular fiction [More in this series]
• Oxford paperbacks

Summary note

The adventures of one of fiction's most enduring characters, the hyper-elegant A. J. Raffles, man-about-town, thief, and 'finest slow bowler of his generation'. With his partner in crime, Bunny Manders Raffles preys on the rich, the greedy, and the unspeakably vulgar. His talents are exercised not only in London, but as far afield as Italy, Australia, and South Africa at the height of the Boer War. The emphasis on panache, with intensifying suggestions of fallibility, goes to the heart of late Vicotiran attitudes and values. In this volume are all the adventures contained in The Amateur Cracksman, The Black Mask, and A Thief in the Night, with a new introduction and a map of London locations.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxiii]).

Contents

• The amateur cracksman
• The black mask
• A thief in the night.

ISBN

• 0192823248
• 9780192823243

LCCN

96005353

OCLC

34284318

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