Dead Men Tell No Tales (Annotated Edition)

A coming of age novel (first published in 1897), eventful on sea and on shore, with a crime and detection component.E. W. Hornung was friendly with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and married his sister. He is best known for having taken his brother-in-law's detective pair, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, and reincarnated them on the wrong side of the law as Raffles and Bunny, who pursued the business of getting a living by the entirely logical method of stealing it.