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- Title: MYSTERY & CRIME COLLECTION (Illustrated)
- Author : E. W. Hornung
- Release Date : January 13, 2016
- Genre: Short Stories,Books,Mysteries & Thrillers,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 2777 KB
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This carefully crafted ebook: "MYSTERY & CRIME COLLECTION: Dr. John Dollar's Mysteries & Adventures of A. J. Raffles, A Gentleman-Thief (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
A. J. Raffles is an 'amateur cracksman' and a gentleman-thief who with his wit and ingenuity befools everyone to get what he wants. On the other hand, Dr. John Dollars is interested in solving criminal cases with his medical expertise – the precursor of our modern day medical mystery detectives!
Contents:
A Thief in the Night
Out of Paradise
The Chest of Silver
The Rest Cure
The Criminologists' Club
The Field of Philippi
A Bad Night
A Trap to Catch a Cracksman
The Spoils of Sacrilege
The Raffles Relics
The Last Word
The Crime Doctor
The Physician Who Healed Himself
The Life-Preserver
A Hopeless Case
The Golden Key
A Schoolmaster Abroad
One Possessed
The Doctor's Assistant
The Second Murderer
E. W. Hornung (1866–1921) was an English author and poet and also brother-in-law to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Hornung is known for writing the A. J. Raffles series about a gentleman thief based on a deliberate inversion of the Sherlock Holmes series. Hornung dedicated his creation as a form of flattery to Doyle.