Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Mr. Justice Raffles
    Mr. Justice Raffles
    Mr. Justice Raffles
    Ebook238 pages3 hours

    Mr. Justice Raffles

    By Ernest William Hornung

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    This early work by Ernest William Hornung was originally published in 1909 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Mr. Justice Raffles' is the fourth and last book featuring the charming A. J. Raffles. Unlike the three previous works, the book was a full-length novel and featured darker elements than the earlier collections of short stories. In it a jaded Raffles is growing increasingly cynical about British high society. He encounters Dan Levy, an unscrupulous moneylender, who manages to entrap a number of young men, mostly sons of the wealthy, by giving them loans and then charging huge amounts of interest. Raffles takes it upon himself to teach Levy a lesson. Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866. After working briefly as a journalist, and publishing a series of poems in The Times, Hornung created the character for which he is best-remembered: A. J. Raffles, a "gentleman thief" plying his trade in Victorian London.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWhite Press
    Release dateNov 12, 2014
    ISBN9781473396852
    Mr. Justice Raffles

    Read more from Ernest William Hornung

    Related to Mr. Justice Raffles

    Related ebooks

    General Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Eating My Words

      Nov 15, 2021

      Eating My Words
      9 min read

    • Article

      Black Stump Hotel, Merriwagga

      Nov 14, 2018

      Black Stump Hotel, Merriwagga
      6 min read

    • Article

      Howl Palace

      Sep 15, 2019

      Last week, I finally had to put Howl Palace up for sale. Years of poor financial planning had led to this decision, and I tried to take some comfort in my agent’s belief in a buyer who might show up with an all-cash offer. My agent is a highly organi

      25 min read

    • Article

      Last Orders

      Jul 28, 2021

      Last Orders
      5 min read

    • Article

      Life In The past Lane

      Aug 27, 2021

      Life In The past Lane
      5 min read

    • Article

      Anything Goes For Me And My Chums

      Aug 25, 2021

      In my neck of the woods, it’s back to normal. How’s it with you? On the bus and the London Underground, I am still wearing a mask, but other than that, everything is much as it was before the pandemic struck – except that my office-worker friends rea

      3 min read

    • Article

      THE DUKE OF Edinbrough Hotel

      Nov 13, 2019

      THE DUKE OF Edinbrough Hotel
      6 min read

    • Article

      Good Books Make Good Fuel

      Sep 21, 2022

      Is it time to burn my books? My wife has already told me she is getting rid of the lot the moment I go. So, given the cost-of-living crisis and the rocketing price of fuel, is this the year for me to clear the grate and set a match to all my treasure

      3 min read

    • Article

      Addicted To Books

      Jun 1, 2022

      The plaque on the door of my hotel room said ‘Superior Room’. Once inside, I searched for evidence for this rather grandiose claim. None was apparent, though there was a chocolate on the pillow. And the toilet paper had been folded into a neat point

      5 min read

    • Article

      Our Lady Of The Rockies

      Aug 7, 2023

      Our Lady Of The Rockies
      13 min read

    • Article

      Speedboat

      Mar 24, 2022

      Nobody died that year. Nobody prospered. There were no births or marriages. Seventeen reverent satires were written – disrupting a cliché and, presumably, creating a genre. That was a dream, of course, but many of the most important things, I fi nd,

      14 min read

    • Article

      Retreading The City

      Nov 2, 2023

      It’s hard to pinpoint when and how inspiration strikes for a novel, but I know exactly when it did for The Detective. The Waiter and The Cook were the first two books in my Kamil Rahman thriller series about a disgraced policeman from Kolkata who co

      6 min read

    • Article

      A Book To Get Lost In

      Feb 17, 2020

      A Book To Get Lost In
      7 min read

    • Article

      It's Crying Time

      Nov 15, 2023

      I was about 13, on a sofa in front of the television on a wet Saturday afternoon. I was carelessly able to do that once – sigh. I was watching a black-and-white film. Or maybe the TV was black-and-white – probably. It was a story about a nanny caring

      4 min read

    • Article

      Appreciating Hate

      Sep 10, 2021

      Felix thought of his mind as though it were artwork – a painting. His skull was the frame, the canvas inside the frame was the grey matter, the applied paint was his education, and that insubstantial feeling evoked by the art piece was his consciousn

      7 min read

    • Article

      On Loss

      Apr 17, 2023

      On Loss
      3 min read

    • Article

      J. Jezewska Stevens

      Dec 15, 2017

      The party was a failure. I can’t even tell you what a failure it was. There are no words. Only a great pain in my chest when I wake up. On the veranda. It’s better when I sit in the chair. Oh, but then I can see around. The gauzy curtains, pushed by

      15 min read

    • Article

      Robin Ince Is On The Road

      Mar 7, 2022

      There are too many books in Hay-on-Wye. Finding a treasure does not have the same sense of victory as finding something at a jumble sale in Invergordon or a junk shop in Stalybridge. But it doesn’t stop me browsing. I find a tiny pocket book of myths

      3 min read

    • Article

      ‘I’d Always Wanted To Write A Historical Novel About The Royal Family’

      Sep 16, 2020

      “If I didn’t write novels for a living, I’d run a second-hand bookshop. I love them and I never pass one without going in. As a result, our house wheezes under the weight of tatty old volumes on every subject under the sun. All purchased in a fit of

      2 min read

    • Article

      Roger’s PROFANISAURUS

      May 18, 2023

      Roger’s PROFANISAURUS
      7 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Mr. Justice Raffles

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Mr. Justice Raffles - Ernest William Hornung

      8Nabook_preview_excerpt.html\ۖuZglYNb\R8(yihQzʪ(LC?)Iާ z8Ӎ*T:g}.5O?qjJ;Zo_''O_}{Y7(⋯^O~/֟_\,^~ycsZ7R|]U< 6_M%뺉\F*:w.0{0j.}UO78S3aS 0]c" ~39il?O4?uUx.ɵ8ы(Y?Wy20V+vwiݾa 𵚭'Sėmb>?s'_\<0dp#חU_\n>Σkgq'?>} |s/\״/Փ_gTܗM}Y>twZ7X/܆@~r+66?|(^ś)⍇ذ)7Э_25틛M>s?xqW-N/?xsV6xG`,8s7~h Tq: \_x~4=Tx6=y9{@|P*?x,MP!,C%_?5Wܻ{Toƽg|mcTiǞ c+^ǖ7/EE0E?I/+P.)\=@+Naf *W#'cqGH峇v=a7u~o 4X`?dwq*ڌVݲ΍#]*| BjB?W|-N3MKmOk+v{؊\oqv:glvۀaqi+ǣo"EEzt>[(zn_]ɷ1}/b~տWpَrWHО]幊`_ 2OqhFhOmo'j x '79%m/ZO}N*q}|Ѫ& Kih96$oaXк aL>v|qfr`cd1h_Of"ߙ&+>͢|cSAH>lj6ֿ[l|Fv{ O4KVyzrjdW.r <֐>bÔH&tn OpK=Y`XO>Cq)cuOS3:5ec ?_;Hΰg`Tv0Fe\bw%7>j)+pz?@ETx6`I-%"LtT|U]GkC}BϏωC-T;nx- % TwwM5SOI2DB} 6=n)jLKelܞ1L&پUo)cąUXȉKZ+@"F  #;/c\kBH8l9}8v89\{r ٝ&bD.nڙ鬝a)!b 8O^c%1 r睻5epĺ)k&L m^&DCt4mB.D,nWPpFfIj=H`X `_On6*BevAh2rKx@"j|z MZx1 X };ŽNu@5\Q?JqSXA^0z7ٜOrt҆~*`ExAtIm̓G(Z!9X"BѴ/qC8,3Ui_liC;梶z-7-9'=3jӦe x,PqF]k╓pM^>{V& sp`B}:'DD=zk4;eftdgϘ݅זC@pm9Sj|ĨyRfcq@G?2#zbTv!z*٭';溎Lvj$c-PBv[[xW~θA>+ GB^iT\p tp)d5xbÃ|Lf.B/pvs "uN[ Wf\] N6ؔ*-}>RkIe:`Q0,tT$Lxw\PӼeN5)9 1d=`a z-_ `\uLezؙqA4lej;M 4nu6m *<{{6Bt:CS*uџ6D]&cKF!ҝͰ]b"+'Cg|-0J41D|`rB,Ddhk9--V;h9MSf[t_xg0!.M`lxaqD^ ,ʁ6PnQbS10Y| _<12-EvĔkSR; r{bHvOe7+uZ_ϺSb5i9-0c$L5ΡfiL%$m0k/&8 ÉɈ L֠ ZpOL_a(f7ʒ)qBfڰYYz=OvȀл"-_HBVƉJp .}#{U]3U>5˼ d Ys, ĭO㚰N% ૅ12*MqgJu^ĠvBitv;~r|POMVט6f*Z%yLd3m ժ.GB烒+ odIʱ #lx$e]ƣR.v>Q_r/"ۤyG*rP7+"eA%)@Y5k#!~ FۊqV_bxTj%Zb;s1SgOA}(> EFJT[ 6XeJCf 'i)2tkacN)ΎXXqI)1 f6{:V9Xa TTyZj1X+vA)ƯL%-eQ=GlcS@@ae}L=6UL} w`\yX';M)Hyޓz4MUj#. 7cPϛ1 {RLe=I+J5iW1o>92:2f2iǞ)gǝaMAHMaȭQ:xP2ԎAt 3k?a+k%Bȱu֌IǪ _Ʀ=XBndqEڜU .%|$~xKr>_w&I`?8 |ado-<ʯ-)Ɨ :(&n˕@=+V( Z-E ճ&փA\>y%RJgGOg6ɓX1oQ ܠ9;qkZeq`)桺54Qi/{QXL ,2)sVpӒm~Kc,?LbSxN[5%T)"\h> /Qw))93SNHQ"LnA|jյ: FU(Ƹ=f+"Ov:tùRag!}G%jE`6UUDF^"U@N ufL+\y[MAaLzJιO>D4̕ђ繱/-GU3iyb֕:xiF<2O +b43W^ⰂIH,'2Eeߙ'0^@f{K2ԫeɱhEd;=(e9(L8-o_&dŒ=@KI~/U۰ٷ5^/xJ-82rRI~l%M% 8¸zk܉iB8dryMS!]ɷS}2զlmLȺz23+U NBћe?5bP]f :%_&Zq/HQw,nTZa+W&԰271y1׷v4Ȳx 0q>Qߚ,#PA_{VȤ`9 pA2HM:bnj8Dp>GB⇳EFDϓC=<ˁHV巤5B}3"Rq{[1!XgjBYxP"F2." +&*rP=Ͳydf%m:pm!䃅TgɘRl"!Wd+tr {Ru0ht-N/)3Ϧ+`ѱNaXd]@kϩu6.G"-,jR1ᾒNܦlq\ٯAR/Wb+{g.MEչ&C;>f}X+`2-3mQ~YK|)Kv^4˦Чj5)W,lM"LH>ߤk_AL])g?al^_R:{=fU`/._].o 6PfBM 0-xyΆl`ꔀάb< LR?E*/7}9-?L,̐x{随jԴf"B e+`&Kl^jjeW?+Ⱦ.Bh&eX|;#` N΢&Hkű tWf)_ w%auRn JL-R[9 Ƥɩ,['ŤD:9(}H :11}Hh'n-M.|Xj9|1 NI&hcGdslZjT;y!=|2Ӥ ж~Z(lHӲ]C_&KgZr+:UpKY45L>ui٣.1nպ/2pL ɴ+fJ dnԇ5$^` ұz/4vUqmk&l^jR 9>qxs'_B89F,BI&W{JS6&A d,( & |)] a5ԴҸ*$h#hw闙6yHHb |OK%'8LWq6 C_f) udT0yxlQmr".'$| ׾PR{m+/@) 8m7w][?OJZ8[qX0 pW,)ΩyݾGDRg.'ym2 prCgfNjLUR[sNGz{;KcqJ,Ӣ&[})ɟzQ*9eGousņƵG.V{o9/͆C°۪Nt$"?}12a|ưkV"eްQݡ/Q?:K&g C^!ba!Z~KJ.q |ʸ]3v*GǛtL,ܳ~J+ ފqҩI4w{#sl'M7xCB[ w6Icу`^Ժ=[k6rӨR{'Ma0B܎Uguߤ/!rx/'Bjݴ]XD'T񳆑Š]N0 A[XfI`9NuSjx'18!_JwZ#-|*u^ZU*uچI2mw+~DA@te1g2+Eyv2ie; m R1D`Zin/AVӐ6wMd| dunUU76j:K3#mygq7a{o]p+uУZlԍ5v>S#fA*)N҈JW0t4)3YTRv֚͜D^}CtsIXcU KD L,zŇPd1:1[},\nSKPPW/*z`h1 dNc1w+k]3a1sYtx2jKV*NY! V//-}C5"1QA{t\܂}.eVٓq֙%j% SW֥0mǶofٖ \jROZG>)'w뭼i&,@ >K
      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1