The A. J. Raffles Collection (Annotated)

The A. J. Raffles Collection gathers tales surrounding one of late-Victorian and Edwardian fiction's most alluring criminal figures: the cultivated gentleman thief whose burglaries expose the theatricality of class, respectability, and law. Moving between brisk adventure, comic social observation, suspenseful crime narrative, and playful parody, the volume demonstrates the elasticity of the Raffle...