E. W. Hornung
3 Bücher
- You get Raffles and Bunny at their most polished: ingenious burglaries, close shaves, and Bunny’s anxious, admiring narration making every moral compromise feel oddly companionable. The stories are brisk and sly, though their gentleman-thief romanticism and late-Victorian attitudes can feel decidedly dated.
- You get Raffles, an elegant cricketer who spends his evenings burgling houses, while Bunny nervously narrates and helps him keep up the respectable façade. The stories are brisk, sly, and morally slippery, with just enough suspense to make you overlook how often you’re quietly rooting for theft.
- Raffles and Bunny again, but sadder and shabbier this time, both in hiding after everything went wrong, pulling jobs because it's all they know how to be. If you liked the first book's charm, this one trades some of it for melancholy, and it suits them.