A. J. Raffles is a British fictional character – a cricketer and gentleman thief – created by E. W. Hornung. Between 1898 and 1909, Hornung wrote a series of 26 short stories, two plays, and a novel a
1904 Collier's illustration by J. C. Leyendecker
Bunny and Raffles in "The Ides of March", by John H. Bacon (Cassell's Magazine, 1898)
"The Gift of the Emperor" is a short story by E. W. Hornung, and features the gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, and his companion and biographer, Bunny Manders. The story was first published in October 1