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If I must tell more tales of Raffles, I can but back to our earliest days together, and fill in the blanks left by discretion in existing annals. <P> <P> In so doing I may indeed fill some small part of an infinitely greater blank, across which you may conceive me to have stretched my canvas fo... More

Classic mystery/detective novel. According to Wikipedia: Ernest William Hornung (June 7, 1866 - March 22, 1921). . . was an English author, most famous for writing the Raffles series of novels about a gentleman thief in late Victorian London. Hornung was the third son of John Peter Hornung, a Hun... More

Arthur Raffles is a prominent member of London society, and a national sporting hero. As a cricketer he regularly represents England in Test matches. He uses this as a chance to commit a number of burglaries, primarily stealing valuable jewelry from his hosts. In this he is assisted by his friend, t... More

The third installment in the irresistible adventures of A. J. Raffles, the thief who gives crime a good nameFor weeks, Bunny Manders has scoured the sporting papers, looking for word of his vanished friend—the cricketer, playboy, and gentleman thief A. J. Raffles. A mysterious message lures Bunny to... More

Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack - 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photosE. W. Hornung was a noted English author who wrote around the turn of the Twentieth Century, his most famous creation being the Gentleman Thief, Raffles. During the later years of the First World War (1917-1... More

Contains 8 short stories including: * No sinecure * A Jubilee present * The fate of Faustina * The last laugh * To catch a thief * An old flame * The wrong house * The knees of the gods... More

Gentleman thief Raffles is daring, debonair, devilishly handsome-and a first-rate cricketer. In these eight stories, the master burglar indulges his passion for cricket and crime: stealing jewels from a country house, outwitting the law, pilfering from the nouveau riche, and, of course, bowling like... More

The cracking debut of A. J. Raffles, proper English gentleman and jewel thief extraordinaireSometimes the greatest of partnerships are born in the direst of moments. For Bunny Manders and A. J. Raffles, such a moment comes when a bad night at the baccarat tables threatens to end in suicide. Hundreds... More

Sophisticated mayhem from a master of crime fictionSince his friend and partner in crime, A. J. Raffles, jumped into the Mediterranean, Bunny Manders has scraped along as best he can. At Raffles’s side, he was witness to, and participant in, the most ingenious burglaries the underworld had ever seen... More

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the be... More

From preconception care through all aspects of care of the pregnant mother and newborn infant, Clinical Obstetrics provides comprehensive, authoritative information on today’s obstetrics and maternal-fetal medicine. The fourth edition has been streamlined with concise chapters summarizing clinical c... More