Raffles Ð The Amateur CracksmanGentleman thief Raffles is daring, debonair, devilishly handsome and a first rate cricketer. In these stories, the master burglar indulges his passion for cricket and crime: stealing jewels from a country house, outwitting the law, pilfering from the nouveau riche, and, of course, bowling like a demon all with the assistance of his plucky sidekick, Bunny. Encouraged by his brother in law, Arthur Conan Doyle, to write a series about a public school