num_pages: 475
description: This entertaining collection of crime stories presents 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. Throughout these exciting yarns the emphasis on panache, with intensifying suggestions of fallibility, goes to the heart of late Victorian attitudes and values.
language: English
title: The Complete Short Stories of Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman
titlecomplete: The Complete Short Stories of Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman
genres: Crime, Mystery, Short Stories, Classics, Fiction, Adventure
ratings_count: 136
series: A.J. Raffles, The Gentleman Thief
publisher: St Martins Pr