J. Raffles, the gentleman jewel thief created by E. W. Hornung at the end of the Victorian era, his first book appearance being in The Amateur Cracksman (1899). A few years after the author’s death in 1921, the popularity of the character remained at such a high level that the British magazine The Thriller asked Barry Perowne, already a regular contributor, to continue the rogue’s adventures. After making arrangements with the estate of Hornung, Perowne produced many more stories about Raffles than his creator had, as well as several novels. Perowne, the pseudonym of Philip Atkey (1908–1985) wrote hundreds of stories and more than 20 novels, many featuring the suave safecracker and his sidekick, Bunny Manders, including The Return of Raffles (1933), Raffles in Pursuit (1934), Raffles Under Sentence (1936), and Raffles Revisited (1974), a short story collection. The exceptionally versatile and prolific Perowne also produced numerous thirty-thousand-word paperback original novellas about Dick Turpin, the notorious highwayman, and Red Jim, the first air detective.
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