Classic mystery novel. According to Wikipedia: "Ernest William Hornung (7 June 1866 – 22 March 1921),[1] known as Willie, was an English author, most famous for writing the Raffles series of novels about a gentleman thief in late Victorian London… Hornung returned to England in February 1886, and married Constance ("Connie") Aimée Monica Doyle (1868–1924), the sister of his friend Sir Arthur Conan...