![]() ![]() His adventures are detailed by his friend (his Watson), Bunny Manders, a struggling journalist who first met the young Raffles while they were at school together. Raffles, the perpetual houseguest, mingles with the upper class but is, in fact, a jewel thief-a master cracksman who makes his living by stealing from his wealthy acquaintances. Hornung achieved considerable success by inverting Arthur Conan Doyle’s formulas with his stories about the gentleman thief A.J. ![]() One author, however (who, interestingly was part of Conan Doyle’s family, having married Conan Doyle’s sister Constance in 1893), went about this in a different way. It was not long before other writers of the time realized that there was a ready market for parodies and pastiches of Conan Doyle’s work and that a living could be earned by using his formula. ![]() Sherlock Holmes, perhaps the most successful fictional character in the history of literature, very quickly made his creator, the unknown Scottish physician Arthur Conan Doyle, an internationally famous and best selling author. Throughout the late nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth century detective and mystery fiction were dominated by one character as never before or since. ![]()
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