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    The Black Mask (Annotated)
    The Black Mask (Annotated)
    The Black Mask (Annotated)
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    The Black Mask (Annotated)

    By E. W. Hornung

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    • This edition includes the following editor's analysis: Can Arthur J. Raffles be compared to Sherlock Holmes?

    First published in 1901, “The Black Mask” is the second collection of stories in Hornung's series concerning A. J. Raffles, a gentleman thief in late Victorian London. The collection was published under the title Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman.

    After the events of the final story of the preceding short story collection, “The Amateur Cracksman,” the reputations of Arthur. J. Raffles and his companion Bunny Manders are ruined. Raffles is assumed to have drowned in the Mediterranean, and Bunny has faced eighteen months in prison and is struggling to get back on his feet.
    The incredible eight stories in this collection follow their reunion, and their joint return to crime, though as hardened criminals rather than respectable gentlemen. The stories are in chronological order, yet each is mostly independent and can be read separately.

    Arthur J. Raffles appears in three other works (two short story collections and one novel, all published by ePembaBooks) by E. W. Hornung:
    • “The Amateur Cracksman” (1899, 8 short stories)
    • “A Thief in the Night” (1905, 10 short stories)
    • “Mr. Justice Raffles” (1909, novel)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherePembaBooks
    Release dateMay 2, 2023
    ISBN9791220898164
    The Black Mask (Annotated)
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    E. W. Hornung

    Ernest William Hornung (1866 –1921) was a prolific English poet and novelist, famed for his A. J. Raffles series of novels about a gentleman thief in late 19th century London. Hornung spent most of his life in England and France, but in 1883 he traveled to Australia where he lived for three years, his experiences there shaping many of his novels and short stories. On returning to England he worked as a journalist, and also published many of his poems and short stories in newspapers and magazines. A few years after his return, he married Constance Aimée Doyle, sister of his friend Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, with whom he had a son. During WWI he followed the troops in French trenches and later gave a detailed account of his encounters in Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front. Ernest Hornung died in 1921.

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