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  • The Amateur Cracksmen
    E. W. Hornung / EWHornung
    Arthur Raffles is a prominent member of London society, and a national sporting hero. As a cricketer he regularly represents England in Test matches. He uses this as a chance to commit a number of burglaries, primarily stealing valuable jewelry from his hosts. In this he is assisted by his friend, the younger, idealistic Bunny Manders. Both men are constantly under the surveill...
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    20,39 €

  • A Thief in the Night (Esprios Classics)
    E. W. Hornung / EWHornung
    Ernest William Hornung (1866 - 1921) was an English author and poet known for writing the A. J. Raffles series of stories about a gentleman thief in late 19th-century London. Hornung was educated at Uppingham School; as a result of poor health he left the school in December 1883 to travel to Sydney, where he stayed for two years. He drew on his Australian experiences as a backg...
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    22,18 €

  • Mr. Justice Raffles (Esprios Classics)
    E. W. Hornung / EWHornung
    Ernest William Hornung (1866 - 1921) was an English author and poet known for writing the A. J. Raffles series of stories about a gentleman thief in late 19th-century London. Hornung was educated at Uppingham School; as a result of poor health he left the school in December 1883 to travel to Sydney, where he stayed for two years. He drew on his Australian experiences as a backg...
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    22,90 €

  • Raffles
    E. W. Hornung / EWHornung
    Ernest William Hornung (1866 - 1921) was an English author and poet known for writing the A. J. Raffles series of stories about a gentleman thief in late 19th-century London. Hornung was educated at Uppingham School; as a result of poor health he left the school in December 1883 to travel to Sydney, where he stayed for two years. He drew on his Australian experiences as a backg...
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    21,39 €

  • Dead Men Tell No Tales (Esprios Classics)
    E. W. Hornung / EWHornung
    Ernest William Hornung (1866 - 1921) was an English author and poet known for writing the A. J. Raffles series of stories about a gentleman thief in late 19th-century London. Hornung was educated at Uppingham School; as a result of poor health he left the school in December 1883 to travel to Sydney, where he stayed for two years. He drew on his Australian experiences as a backg...
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    22,20 €

  • The Shadow of the Rope (Esprios Classics)
    E. W. Hornung / EWHornung
    Ernest William Hornung (1866 - 1921) was an English author and poet known for writing the A. J. Raffles series of stories about a gentleman thief in late 19th-century London. Hornung was educated at Uppingham School; as a result of poor health he left the school in December 1883 to travel to Sydney, where he stayed for two years. He drew on his Australian experiences as a backg...
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    25,22 €

  • No Hero (Esprios Classics)
    E. W. Hornung / EWHornung
    Ernest William Hornung (1866 - 1921) was an English author and poet known for writing the A. J. Raffles series of stories about a gentleman thief in late 19th-century London. Hornung was educated at Uppingham School; as a result of poor health he left the school in December 1883 to travel to Sydney, where he stayed for two years. He drew on his Australian experiences as a backg...
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    20,66 €

  • The Amateur Cracksman (Esprios Classics)
    E. W. Hornung / EWHornung
    The Amateur Cracksman is an 1899 short story collection by E. W. Hornung. It was published in the UK by Methuen and Co., London, and in the US by Scribner’s, New York. Many later editions (T. Nelson and Sons, 1914; University of Nebraska Press, 1976; et al) expand the title to Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman. It was the original short story collection by Hornung, featuring his m...
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    22,24 €

  • The Amateur Cracksman
    E. W. Hornung / EWHornung
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important ...
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    36,40 €

  • The Shadow of a Man
    E. W. Hornung / EWHornung
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important ...
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    34,46 €

  • Fathers of Men
    E. W. Hornung / EWHornung
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important ...
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    24,72 €

  • Fathers of Men
    E. W. Hornung / EWHornung
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important ...
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    37,20 €

  • Raffles - The Amateur Cracksman
    E. W. Hornung / EWHornung
    Gentleman thief Raffles is daring, debonair, devilishly handsome-and a first-rate cricketer. In these stories, the master burglar indulges his passion for cricket and crime: stealing jewels from a country house, outwitting the law, pilfering from the nouveau riche, and, of course, bowling like a demon-all with the assistance of his plucky sidekick, Bunny. Encouraged by his brot...
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    67,75 €

  • The Complete Raffles (Complete and Unabridged) Includes
    E. W. Hornung / EWHornung
    Arthur J. Raffles is a character by E. W. Hornung. He is a gentleman thief, living in a salubrious part of London, playing Cricket and supporting himself through his ingenious burglaries. He has a sidekick called Harry 'Bunny' Manders who is brave and loyal, frequently saving the day. Raffles is a master of disguise imitating accents flawlessly. This book contain all the Raffle...
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    37,25 €

  • The Amateur Cracksmen
    E. W. Hornung / EWHornung
    Arthur Raffles is a prominent member of London society, and a national sporting hero. As a cricketer he regularly represents England in Test matches. He uses this as a chance to commit a number of burglaries, primarily stealing valuable jewelry from his hosts. In this he is assisted by his friend, the younger, idealistic Bunny Manders. Both men are constantly under the surveill...
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    13,90 €

  • Crime and Adventure with A. J. Raffles, Gentleman Thief
    E. W. Hornung / EWHornung
    Hornung’s famous Raffles crime stories are collected in one volume, including 26 short stories and a novel. Raffles, and his partner Bunny, are daring in their larcenous escapades as they attempt to evade the law. ...
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    30,09 €

  • The Complete Raffles
    E. W. Hornung / EWHornung
    These are E. W. Hornung’s famous stories of adventure and crime featuring the thrill seeking A. J. Raffles and his friend, accomplice and chronicler ’Bunny’. By turns urbane gentleman about town and accomplished cricketer, life is just too ordinary for Raffles and that sets him on a series of adventures that have long been treasured as a real antidote to the ’white knights’ who...
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    19,56 €

  • The Complete Raffles
    E. W. Hornung / EWHornung
    These are E. W. Hornung’s famous stories of adventure and crime featuring the thrill seeking A. J. Raffles and his friend, accomplice and chronicler ’Bunny’. By turns urbane gentleman about town and accomplished cricketer, life is just too ordinary for Raffles and that sets him on a series of adventures that have long been treasured as a real antidote to the ’white knights’ who...
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    28,51 €

  • The Complete Raffles
    E. W. Hornung / EWHornung
    Here are more of E. W. Hornung’s famous stories of adventure and crime featuring the thrill seeking A. J. Raffles and his friend, accomplice and chronicler ’Bunny’. By turns urbane gentleman about town and accomplished cricketer, life is just too ordinary for Raffles and that sets him on a series of adventures that have long been treasured as a real antidote to the ’white knigh...
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    20,47 €

  • The Complete Raffles
    E. W. Hornung / EWHornung
    Here are more of E. W. Hornung’s famous stories of adventure and crime featuring the thrill seeking A. J. Raffles and his friend, accomplice and chronicler ’Bunny’. By turns urbane gentleman about town and accomplished cricketer, life is just too ordinary for Raffles and that sets him on a series of adventures that have long been treasured as a real antidote to the ’white knigh...
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    30,57 €

  • Stingaree (1909)
    E. W. Hornung / EWHornung
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    32,18 €

  • Raffles
    E. W. Hornung / EWHornung / Hornung E. W. Hornung / Hornung EWHornung
    I am still uncertain which surprised me more, the telegram calling my attention to the advertisement, or the advertise-ment itself. The telegram is before me as I write. It would appear to have been handed in at Vere Street at eight o’clock in the morning ...
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    34,42 €

  • The Amateur Cracksman
    E. W. Hornung / EWHornung / Hornung E. W. Hornung / Hornung EWHornung
    It was half-past twelve when I returned to the Albany as a last desperate resort. The scene of my disaster was much as I had left it. The baccarat-counters still strewed the table, with the empty glasses and the loaded ash-trays. A window had been opened ...
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    34,43 €

  • 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 €

  • No Hero
    E. W. Hornung / EWHornung / Hornung E. W. Hornung / Hornung EWHornung
    Has no writer ever dealt with the dramatic aspect of the unopened envelope? I cannot recall such a passage in any of my authors, and yet to my mind there is much matter for philosophy in what is always the expressionless shell of a boundless possibility. ...
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    34,62 €

  • 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 €

  • 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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    30,45 €

  • 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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    30,27 €


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