"The Ides of March" is a short story by E. W. Hornung, and the first appearance of the gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, and his companion and biographer, Bunny Manders. The story was first published in
1898 Collier's illustration by E. V. Nadherny
Illustration for "In the Chains of Crime" in the June 1898 issue of Cassell's Magazine.
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)