AMATEUR CRACKSMAN

In a beautiful tiny Collectable Crime Classics series with gold tooling and gilt-edged pages and pagemarker is the complete and unabridged text with a new glossary of crime, mystery and literary terms by Judith John. Daring gentleman thief and sporting hero, Raffles outwits and steals from the pompous and the elite. He is assisted by his friend Bunny in a series of classic crime and mystery adventures and here are two original collections 'The Amateur Cracksman' and 'Raffles: Further Adventures of The Amateur Cracksman'. 'But I fagged for you at school, and you said you remembered me... but will you listen to me - for two minutes?' The cricketer and prominent member of London society uses his cover to commit a number of burglaries including stealing valuable jewellery for thrill and profit. Both men are constantly under the surveillance of Inspector Mackenzie of Scotland Yard, always thwarted in his attempts to pin the crimes on Raffles. The original short story collection was first published in 1899. 415pp.