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  • A Thief in the Night
    E.W. Hornung / E.WHornung
    These latest adventures of ’Raffles’ and ’Bunny’ are their most thrilling and exciting ones. The sentimental side of their story has never before been shown so dramatically and romantically, and the suggestion in this book of the final conclusion of their careers cannot but make these stories of the greatest interest to all readers. ...
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    17,68 €

  • The Camera Fiend
    E.W. Hornung / E.WHornung
    Uncover the thrilling world of E.W. Hornung’s *The Camera Fiend*, a captivating tale that has been out of print for decades and is now reborn through Alpha Editions. This vintage mystery book invites you into a suspenseful narrative that intertwines the art of photography with the intrigue of crime, making it a must-read for both casual readers and classic literature collectors...
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    20,58 €

  • Stingaree Rides Again
    E.W. Hornung / E.WHornung / Peter Rowland
    Stingaree’s adventures have long delighted thousands of readers. He is a stylish bushranger, his English origins cloaked in mystery, who operates in New South Wales. He is, after Raffles, the most famous character that E.W. Hornung (1866-1921) ever created. Virtually unknown, however, is the fact that twelve years after the original stories appeared Hornung started to write ...
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    6,84 €

  • Tall Tales and short’uns
    E.W. Hornung / E.WHornung
    E.W. Hornung (1866-1921) was one of the most prolific fiction-writers of his day, producing a stream of short stories and novels which were (and are) immensely popular. The brother-in-law of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, he was the creator of a world-famous character called A.J. Raffles (the direct opposite of Sherlock Holmes), who played cricket by day and burgled by night. But man...
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    11,73 €

  • Dead Men Tell No Tales
    E. W. Hornung / EWHornung / W. Hornung E. W. Hornung / WHornung EWHornung
    Nothing is so easy as falling in love on a long sea voyage, except falling out of love. Especially was this the case in the days when the wooden clippers did finely to land you in Sydney or in Melbourne under the four full months. We all saw far too much ...
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    34,43 €

  • The Shadow of the Rope
    E. W. Hornung / EWHornung / W. Hornung E. W. Hornung / WHornung EWHornung
    It is finished, said the woman, speaking very quietly to herself. 'Not another day, nor a night, if I can be ready before morning!' She stood alone in her own room, with none to mark the white-hot pallor of the oval face, the scornful curve of quivering nostrils, the dry lustre of flashing eyes. But while she stood a heavy step went blustering down two flights of stairs, a...
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    34,01 €

  • A Thief in the Night
    E. W. Hornung / EWHornung / W. Hornung E. W. Hornung / WHornung EWHornung
    If I must tell more tales of Raffles, I can but back to our earliest days together, and fill in the blanks left by discretion in existing annals. In so doing I may indeed fill some small part of an infinitely greater blank, across which you may conceive me to have stretched my canvas for the first frank portrait of my friend. The whole truth cannot harm him now. I shall paint i...
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    34,36 €

  • Mr. Justice Raffles
    E. W. Hornung / EWHornung / W. Hornung E. W. Hornung / WHornung EWHornung
    Raffles had vanished from the face of the town, and even I had no conception of his whereabouts until he cabled to me to meet the 7.31 at Charing Cross next night. That was on the Tuesday before the ’Varsity match, or a full fortnight after his mysterious disappearance. The telegram was from Carlsbad, of all places for Raffles of all men! Of course there was only one thing that...
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    34,18 €