5/19/2023 0 Comments Raffles hornung![]() However there was great popular demand for the return of the character, and a number of generous publishing offers, and Hornung agreed to write another book. Hornung had intended this as a patriotic finale to his hero's story. Raffles takes it upon himself to teach Levy a lesson.Īt the end of Hornung's second Raffles short story collection The Black Mask, Raffles and his companion Bunny Manders volunteer for service in the Second Boer War in 1899 where he was killed at the hands of the Boers. He encounters Dan Levy, an unscrupulous moneylender, who manages to entrap a number of young men, mostly sons of the wealthy, by giving them loans and then charging huge amounts of interest. ![]() ![]() In it a jaded Raffles is growing increasingly cynical about British high society. Unlike the three previous works, the book was a full-length novel and featured darker elements than the earlier collections of short stories. ![]() The novel was published in the UK by Smith, Elder & Co., London, and in the US by Scribner's, New York. It was the fourth and last in his four Raffles books which had begun with The Amateur Cracksman in 1899. Raffles a well-known cricketer and gentleman thief. ![]() Justice Raffles is a 1909 novel written by E.W. ![]()
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