Ernest William Hornung

The Ides of March/ A Costume Piece/ Gentlemen and Players/ Le Premier Pas/ Wilful Murder/ Nine Points of the Law/ The Return Match/ The Gift of the Emperor. In these stories, Raffles, the public-school gentleman, mixes his aptitude for cricket with his passion for crime. Here we see Raffles stealing from the nouveau riche and outwitting the law, thieving diamonds and bowling like a demon, all with the help of his accomplice and ex-fag Bunny.

Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman

Endang Sulistyowati

further adventures of the amateur cracksman

Raffles

Tiny Luttrell. Popular ed

The Unbidden Guest

Short stories about the adventures of a Robin Hood-ish hero.

Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman

A Romance

The Rogue's March

The Shadow of the Rope

Meeting failure in his search for wealth in the 1851 Australian gold rush, a dispirited Mr. Cole takes the next available ship back to England - and falls in love with Eva Denison, a beautiful and accomplished young woman traveling with her exotic Portuguese step-father. After a disaster at sea Cole returns to anonymity in London... or so he thinks. Events lead to the discovery of a horrible conspiracy, and then to an adventure that may cost Cole his greatest love.

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Dead Men Tell No Tales

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Sie kennen Sherlock Holmes? Natürlich! Sie kennen auch Arsène Lupin? Glückwunsch! Aber kennen Sie A. J. Raffles, den berüchtigten Gentleman-Gangster? 1900 schuf Ernest William Hornung (übrigens ein Schwager des Sherlock-Holmes-Autors Arthur Conan Doyle) einen der interessantesten Köpfe der englischen Kriminalliteratur und gleichzeitig einen frühen Antihelden. A. J. Raffles hat in Oxford studiert, hat exzellente Manieren, ist ein Mann von Welt und lebt das Leben eines reichen Dandys. Er ist der Partylöwe unter den Schönen und Reichen und nutzt deren Festivitäten, um seine Beute auszukundschaften. Erleben Sie seine spannenden und äußerst unterhaltsamen Abenteuer erstmalig als E-Book. Null Papier Verlag

Kriminalroman

Raffles als Richter

"Rachel Minchin stands in the dock, accused of murdering the dissolute husband she was preparing to leave. The trial is sensational, and public opinion vehemently and almost universally against her. When the jury astonishes and outrages the world with a vedict of Not Guilty, Rachel quickly finds herself in need of protection. It comes in the form of a surprising offer of marriage from a mysterious stranger who has sat through every day of her trial. The marriage to this intriguing stranger, Mr. Steel, is by mutual agreement to be a platonic one, the only condition of which is that neither is ever to question the other about the past. The two travel to Steel's remote country estate, where Rachel accidentally discovers that her second husband's past was somehow intertwined with her first husband's history - but how, exactly, and why he determined to marry her, Steel will not say. As her doubts about her husband increase, local busybodies threaten to unearth Rachel's own past. And that is the least of the secrets that comes to light as this entertaining mystery unfolds."--Librivox.org.

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Young Blood

A Novel

Dennis Dent

A Bride from the Bush

The Shadow of a Man

My Lord Duke

""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."" Boston Herald. Hornung was the brother-in-law of Arthur Conan Doyle the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Hornung has created Raffles as an inverted representation of Sherlock Holmes. A J Raffles was a thief. He was a gentleman thief who lived in a good neighborhood in London and played cricket. Raffles' plots to steal are ingenious and of a higher quality than the ""common thieves"". Ernest William Hornung (7 June 1866 - 22 March 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.

A Thief in the Night

Rachel Minchin ist angeklagt, den Mord an ihrem Ehemann geplant zu haben. Die Beweise sind erdrückend. Das Urteil nur zu schnell gefällt. Während der Gerichtsverhandlung ist immer ein mysteriöser Fremder zugegen. Dieser Fremde versucht, mit Rachel Kontakt aufzunehmen. Weiß er, was zu ihrer Entlastung beitragen könnte? Parallel dazu versucht ein Detektiv, eine Neuaufnahme des Falles zu erwirken. Wird eine neue Untersuchung, Licht in die Angelegenheit bringen? Dieses Meisterwerk der komplexen Kriminalliteratur macht klar, warum Ernest William Hornung als ein absoluter Könner seines Fachs angesehen wurde. Rachel Minchin war, ehe sie den unglücklichen Schritt unternahm, der ihr diesen Familiennamen eintrug, eine ebenso reizende als blutarme junge Australierin gewesen; das heißt, sie hatte in Heidelberg bei Melbourne das Licht der Welt erblickt, stammte aber von englischen Eltern ab, die, mehr vornehm gesinnt als praktisch veranlagt, bei ihrem frühen Tode der Tochter als einzige Ausrüstung für den Kampf des Lebens ein hübsches Gesicht, einen vortrefflichen Charakter und den Stolz einer reichen Erbin hinterließen. Außerdem hatte Rachel eine recht hübsche Singstimme, die indes nicht groß genug war, um ihr eine gesicherte Zukunft zu versprechen. So war sie denn schon mit zwanzig Jahren als Erzieherin in den Wildnissen Australiens tätig, wo Frauen ebenso rar sind als Wasser, wo sich aber auch kein Mann fand, der Rachels Herz hätte höher schlagen machen. Wenige Jahre später verdiente sie sich die Überfahrt nach England als Gesellschafterin einer Dame, und an Bord dieses Schiffes sollte ihr Schicksal sie ereilen. Null Papier Verlag www.null-papier.de

Kriminaldrama in zwei Bänden

Der Schatten des Stricks

Famous for his A. J. Raffles series of detective stories, E. W. Hornung wrote novels and short stories that explored scientific and medical developments, commenting on important themes of guilt, class and the unequal role of women in society. This comprehensive eBook presents Hornung’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Hornung’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major works * Famous works in the Raffles series are illustrated with their original artwork * Includes the complete Raffles stories, with a special Raffles table of contents * All 20 novels, with individual contents tables * Includes rare novels, appearing for the first time in digital publishing, including THE ROGUE’S MARCH and THE UNBIDDEN GUEST * Features rare short stories from various Edwardian periodicals * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the short stories you want to read * Includes Hornung’s rare war poetry – available in no other collection * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please note: no known copies of ‘Trusty and Well Beloved’, the dramatisation of ‘Raffles’ and several short stories are available at the time of this collection’s publication. As soon as we are able to locate a copy of these scarce works, they will be added to the collection as a free update. Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The A. J. Raffles Series The Novels A BRIDE FROM THE BUSH TINY LUTTRELL THE BOSS OF TAROOMBA THE UNBIDDEN GUEST IRRALIE’S BUSHRANGER THE ROGUE’S MARCH MY LORD DUKE YOUNG BLOOD DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES THE BELLE OF TOORAK PECCAVI AT LARGE THE SHADOW OF THE ROPE DENIS DENT NO HERO MR. JUSTICE RAFFLES THE CAMERA FIEND FATHERS OF MEN THE THOUSANDTH WOMAN WITCHING HILL The Short Story Collections UNDER TWO SKIES SOME PERSONS UNKNOWN THE AMATEUR CRACKSMAN THE BLACK MASK STINGAREE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT THE CRIME DOCTOR OLD OFFENDERS AND A FEW OLD SCORES The Short Stories LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Poetry THE YOUNG GUARD The Non-Fiction NOTES OF A CAMP-FOLLOWER ON THE WESTERN FRONT Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

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