Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman

By E. W. Hornung

Subjects: Mystery, Raffles (fictitious character), fiction, England, fiction, Fiction, general, English Detective and mystery stories, Large type books, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Criminals, Raffles (Fictitious character), Fiction, Fiction in English, Detective and mystery stories

Description: I am still uncertain which surprised me more, the telegram calling my attention to the advertisement, or the advertisement itself. The telegram is before me as I write. It would appear to have been handed in at Vere Street at eight o'clock in the morning of May 11, 1897, and received before half-past at Holloway B.O. And in that drab region it duly found me, unwashen but at work before the day grew hot and my attic insupportable.