At Large is a book by E.W. Hornung. Contents: - A Nucleus of Fortune - Sundown - After Four Years - How Dick Came Home - The First Evening at Graysbrooke - Sisyphus - South Kensington - The Admirable Miles - and more.

A. J. Raffles is an 'amateur cracksman' and a gentleman-thief who with his wit and ingenuity befools everyone to get what he wants. Raffles is an antihero. Although a thief, he never steals from his hosts, he helps old friends in trouble, and in a subsequent volume he may or may not die on the veldt during the Boer War. Additionally, the recognition of the problems of the distribution of wealth is a recurrent subtext throughout the stories. Raffles is, in many ways, a deliberate inversion of Sherlock Holmes on which he is based - he is a "gentleman thief", living at the Albany, a prestigious...

The Shadow of the Rope - a love story and an unusual murder mystery unfolded through the eyes of different character with a surprising twist in the end! The Camera Fiend - a tale of a young photographer who wants to capture the moment when a person's soul leaves the body! Dead Men Tell No Tales - after losing the love of his life in a shipwreck the protagonist gets the shock of his life upon learning that the ship was sunk deliberately. Who did it and why? Witching Hill - when supernatural elements trouble the inhabitants of a new estate everyone tries their best to explain things rationally...

The Shadow of the Rope - a love story and an unusual murder mystery unfolded through the eyes of different character with a surprising twist in the end! The Camera Fiend - a tale of a young photographer who wants to capture the moment when a person's soul leaves the body! Dead Men Tell No Tales - after losing the love of his life in a shipwreck the protagonist gets the shock of his life upon learning that the ship was sunk deliberately. Who did it and why? Witching Hill - when supernatural elements trouble the inhabitants of a new estate everyone tries their best to explain things rationally...

This edition includes: The Amateur Cracksman The Ides of March A Costume Piece Gentlemen and Players Le Premier Pas Wilful Murder . . . The Black Mask; or Raffles: Further Adventures No Sinecure A Jubilee Present The Fate of Faustina The Last Laugh To Catch a Thief . . . A Thief in the Night Out of Paradise The Chest of Silver The Rest Cure The Criminologists' Club The Field of Philippi . . . Mr. Justice Raffles (Novel) THE SEQUELS TO THE ORIGINAL SERIES by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS Mrs. Raffles The Adventure of the Herald Personal The Adventure of the Newport Villa The Adventure of Mrs. Gaster's...

This edition includes: THE ORIGINAL SERIES by E. W. HORNUNG The Amateur Cracksman The Ides of March A Costume Piece Gentlemen and Players Le Premier Pas Wilful Murder . . . The Black Mask; or Raffles: Further Adventures No Sinecure A Jubilee Present The Fate of Faustina The Last Laugh To Catch a Thief . . . A Thief in the Night Out of Paradise The Chest of Silver The Rest Cure The Criminologists' Club The Field of Philippi . . . Mr. Justice Raffles (Novel) THE SEQUELS TO THE ORIGINAL SERIES by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS Mrs. Raffles The Adventure of the Herald Personal The Adventure of the Newport...

Poems Consecration Lord's Leave Last Post The Old Boys Ruddy Young Ginger The Ballad of Ensign Joy Bond and Free Shell-Shock in Arras The Big Thing Forerunners Uppingham Song Wooden Crosses Memoir Notes of a Camp Follower on the Western Front E. W. Hornung (1866-1921) was an English author and a war poet and also brother-in-law to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Hornung is known for writing the A. J. Raffles series about a gentleman thief based on a deliberate inversion of the Sherlock Holmes series. Hornung dedicated his creation as a form of flattery to Doyle. Hornung's works are also remembered...

A. J. Raffles is an 'amateur cracksman' and a gentleman-thief who with his wit and ingenuity befools everyone to get what he wants. On the other hand, Dr. John Dollars is interested in solving criminal cases with his medical expertise - the precursor of our modern day medical mystery detectives! Contents: - A Thief in the Night - Out of Paradise - The Chest of Silver - The Rest Cure - The Criminologists' Club - The Field of Philippi - A Bad Night - A Trap to Catch a Cracksman - The Spoils of Sacrilege - The Raffles Relics - The Last Word - The Crime Doctor - The Physician Who Healed Himself -...

E. W. Hornungs Werk "A. J. Raffles, der Gentleman-Dieb" entwirft mit feinem Gespür und eleganter Ironie das Porträt eines außergewöhnlichen Protagonisten im viktorianischen England. Raffles, ein Meister des Verbrechens im aristokratischen Milieu, bewegt sich geschickt im Spannungsfeld zwischen gesellschaftlichen Konventionen und subtiler Kriminalität. Der Autor bedient sich einer klaren, pointierten Sprache und verbindet Elemente des Krimis mit einer tiefgründigen Betrachtung moralischer Ambivalenz. Die Erzählungen spiegeln den Wandel des ausgehenden 19. Jahrhunderts wider und setzen...