In the canon
Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman
E. W. Hornung
- Form
- Form Short Story Collection
- Year
- Year 1899
- Pages
- Pages 220
Hornung dedicated the book to his brother-in-law, Arthur Conan Doyle, calling it a form of flattery: he had taken Sherlock Holmes and turned him inside out. Raffles keeps rooms at the Albany and bowls slow for the Gentlemen at Lord's, and he lets himself into other people's houses after dark because the life a gentleman is expected to lead costs more than he has.
I have nothing but my wits to live on—absolutely nothing else.
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