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E. W. Hornung: Raffles (2008, Penguin Classics) 5 stars

First published in 1899, The Amateur Cracksman was the first collection of stories detailing the …

Delightful Inversion

5 stars

I love the Raffles stories. They're a delightful inversion of the Sherlock Holmes stories, with the gay subtext /nearly/ laid bare. Bunny, the Dr. Watson analog, is absolutely in love with Raffles, and expresses his shame as though it were purely a symptom of their life of crime, but modern readers will see right through that.