Graham Greene wrote a comic play called The Return of A.J. Other authors who have written about Raffles include Barry Perowne, who from 1932 to 1979 wrote a series of novels starring the character that were moderately well received. Presbury, while A Visit from Raffles (1909) was co-written with Charles Sanson. Hornung also wrote two plays surrounding the character one, Raffles the Amateur Cracksman (1903), was in collaboration with Eugene W. Avoiding a Holmes-like return from the dead, future collections A Thief in the Night (1904) and the poorly received novel Mr Justice Raffles (1909) merely filled in the gaps of the story. He first appeared in the 1899 short story collection The Amateur Cracksman, going on to appear in The Black Mask (1901), where he was killed off in the Boer War. Hornung, himself (rather appropriately) the brother-in-law of Arthur Conan Doyle. Raffles was created by author and poet E.W. In the end, the penitent thief, hair white from his anxieties, gave his life in the service of his country during the Boer War, as a final act of redemption.Ī.J. Raffles managed to escape by jumping over the side and swimming the ten miles to Elba, but Bunny was arrested trying to stop the policeman. In 1895, however, when the two were attempting to steal a pearl on a cruise ship, they were caught. Over the next few years- up to 1895, in fact- they became notorious with Scotland Yard and other members of the criminal profession, being recognised as heads of their field. The gentleman thief immediately saw the upshot of a partner in crime, and they joined up, there first conquest being a jeweller's shop, where Bunny proved invaluable. In 1891, when Bunny was particularly poor, he appealed to Raffles to help him out. This succeeded, but it gave him his first taste of crime.
However, he was mistaken for the banker, and therefore took the chance to steal money from the vault and make good his escape. Raffles- was a prominent banker, and Arthur travelled there in order to ask for money. Raffles first taste of burglary came in 1882, when he was particularly poor.
Although not going as far as actual theft, he did manage to learn the basics of going about under the cover of night, and it was here that the bond between Bunny and Raffles was cemented- Bunny would wait by the window for hours at a time with a rope, in order to help him up and into the room. Inspired by the unusually large amount of burglaries that went on in the area, Raffles would go on nocturnal trips to infiltrate various pubs etc. Raffles went to a small Public School in 1880, where he first met his future colleague, Harry "Bunny" Manders, when he fagged for him.
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