The Black Mask by E. W. Hornung · tale.fyi

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The Black Mask

text from Standard Ebooks · read by Kristin Hughes (1974-2021) for LibriVox

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More by E. W. Hornung

A Thief in the Night
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.
The Amateur Cracksman
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.

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Mystery

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The Black Mask by E. W. Hornung. The text is in the US public domain, from the Standard Ebooks edition. Served from our own copy; read on their site for the full edition with images and typography.

Narrated by Kristin Hughes (1974-2021) for LibriVox, also public domain.

First published in 1901.