The interest in this first story is how Raffles converts Bunny to a life of crime. Suavely and confidently, Raffles confides in the young chap that – neither has he! Despite living in a swanky apartment and doing nothing except play a spot of cricket in the summer, he is in fact penniless. When they’ve all left, Bunny tearfully confesses to Raffles that he hasn’t got the money, in fact he hasn’t got any money.
He loses badly at the card game and ends up having to write cheques for £200 to all the other players. (Bunny himself lives in rooms in Mount Street.) Bunny was Raffles’s fag at public school. Harry ‘Bunny’ Manders is invited to a game of baccarat at Raffles’s rooms in the Albany, a posh apartment block in a little square just off Piccadilly. The eight stories in this first collection are: 1. Raffles, as Hornung’s dedication to this volume makes clear, was intended as a ‘form of flattery’. Hornung dedicated The Amateur Cracksman to his brother-in-law, Arthur Conan Doyle, and openly declared that Raffles was a deliberate inversion of the Sherlock Holmes formula, with a faithful amanuensis recording the daring exploits of a clever, bold, resourceful, upper-class English criminal rather than detective. The first story, The Ides of March, appeared in the June 1898 edition of Cassell’s Magazine and the first eight adventures were collected in The Amateur Cracksman (1899), with further stories in the successive volumes The Black Mask (1901) and A Thief in the Night (1904), followed by the full-length novel, Mr.
The stories are told in the first person by his assistant and chronicler, Harry ‘Bunny’ Manders. (Bunny on Raffles)Įrnest William Hornung wrote a series of twenty-six short stories and one novel about the adventures of by far his most successful fictional character, Arthur J.
He was beyond comparison the most masterful man whom I have ever known.
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