A J Raffles Stories

Sherlock holmes possible brother in law as suggested by author sean levin and win scott eckert.

A j raffles stories. Some pretentious righteous people. Screenwriter philip mackie adapted the episodes from the a. I know that im in the middle of a burglary expedition in order to help my friends who are in deep trouble with risk for my freedom and reputation and safety and that time is running short and i can be discovered. Raffles is a villain through and through everything he does is for his own benefit he doesnt care about anyone else.

The albany refused to give yorkshire television permission to film on their grounds so the production team instead built their own exterior. The raffles stories have two distinct phases. Hornung who between 1898 and 1909 wrote a series of 26 short stories two plays and a novel about him and his fictional chronicler harry bunny manders. Raffles fictional character a charming thief who was originally featured in a series of short stories by ew.

Raffles is in many ways a deliberate inversion of holmes he is a gentleman thief. Raffles is a character created in the 1890s by e. The television series took six months to film and was shot on a mixture of video and film. To acd this form of flattery ran the dedication.

Raffles was a suave victorian socialite who though mingling with the upper classes was in fact a jewel thief and master cracksman safe breaker who made his living stealing from his wealthy acquaintances. As the raffles stories were conversely or inversely based on arthur conan doyles sherlock holmes stories hornung generously paid tribute to his brother in law by dedicating his first volume of stories the amateur cracksman to him. Hornung brother in law to sir arthur conan doyle the creator of sherlock holmes. Raffles stories of author e.

Raffles is a fictional character created in 1898 by e. In the first phase raffles and bunny are men about town who also commit burglaries. Inspector mackenzie of scotland yard known relatives. Hornung that appeared in the strand and other popular british magazines beginning in the late 1880s.

Harry bunny manders enemies. Raffles is a famous gentleman cricketer a marvellous spin bowler who is often invited to social events that would be out of his reach otherwise. It is not to be confused with john c. Hornung a brother in law to arthur conan doyle the creator of sherlock holmes.