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OTHER BOOKS BY MR. HORNUNG

RAFFLES

More Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman

With six full-page illustrations, by F. C. YOHN, drawn in a humor in exact harmony with Mr. Hornung's conceptions.

$1.50

CONTENTS

No Sinecure
A Jubilee Present
The Fate of Faustina
The Last Laugh
To Catch a Thief
An Old Flame
The Wrong House
The Knees of the Gods

RAFFLES, the clever, the resourceful, the big-hearted, here appears again in a new series of experiences and adventures that not only prove as absorbing as those in The Amateur Cracksman but exhibit his character in its larger and later developments and bring his interesting career to a heroic conclusion.

The exploits detailed in this book illustrate the author's ability to satisfactorily follow a character of power and ideals such as Raffles possessed, through the intricacies of an environment so unnatural to it, to a consistent and satisfying climax. The final story, disclosing the conclusion of Raffles's career, has not appeared serially and is here first published.

Charles Scribner's Sons. New York