Raffles of the Albany: Footprints of a Famous Gentleman Crook in the Times of a Great Detective
Raffles of the Albany: Footprints of a Famous Gentleman Crook in the Times of a Great Detective
ISBN: 9780312662202
定价: 90.00
内容简介
A. J. Raffles, gentleman, cricketeer,
and master safecracker, fives in the World
and times of Sherlock Holmes, only on
the other side. He and his faithful Watson,
Bunny Manders, are con men----elegant,
channing, sometimes gallant and tender-
hearted, but con men nevertheless.
Taking up where E. W. Hornung,
author of the Raffles stories at the turn
of the century, left off, Barry Perowne
evokes the familiar world of late Victorian
London: life in the distinguished apart-
ments of The Albany, a fashionable resi-
dence; cricketing house parties; midnight
journeys in hansom cabs through the
foggy streets of the West End. But he
also brings Raffles into encounters, with
the unexpected from suffragettes at
Lord s cricket ground to white slavers on
the Riviera; from the exiled Oscar Wilde
to Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa; and
from the young Winston Churchill to the
great unsung detective, a doctor named
Conan Doyle.
Through it all Raffles remains deb-
onair, resourceful, and curiously moral-
in his fashion. After all he has his beauti-
ful sister Dinah to protect from rogues
like himself and Manders.
In bringing Manders secret papers to
light, Barry Perowne offers us dazzling,
witty adventures--a crook s version of
THE SEVEN-PER-CENT SOLUTION.