The Amateur Cracksman is an 1899 short story collection by E. W. Hornung. It was published in the UK by Methuen & Co., London, and in the US by Scribner's...
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Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman may refer to: Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (play), from 1903 Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1917 film), starring John...
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Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman is a 1917 American silent film starring John Barrymore and Evelyn Brent. The movie also co-stars Frank Morgan and Mike Donlin...
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A. J. Raffles (character) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
gentleman (or "amateur") for the Gentlemen of England and supporting himself by carrying out ingenious burglaries. He is called the "Amateur Cracksman" and often...
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E. W. Hornung (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
"Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1905)". AFI Catalog. American Film Institute. Retrieved 8 February 2014. "Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1917)". AFI...
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Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1925) is a feature length silent adventure crime drama/romance motion picture starring House Peters, Miss DuPont, Hedda...
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Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman is a 1903 play written by Eugene W. Presbrey and E. W. Hornung, based on two of Hornung's short stories from The Amateur Cracksman...
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Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1906) by E. W. Hornung and Eugene Wiley Presbrey, which was in turn adapted from the 1899 short story collection of the same...
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role in The Christian.[citation needed] In 1903, she played Gwendolyn in the Broadway premiere of E. W. Hornung's Raffles, The Amateur Cracksman opposite...
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Raffles stories and adaptations (redirect from Raffles the Thief)
withheld. The novel was poorly received, and no further stories were published. Hornung dedicated the first collection of stories, The Amateur Cracksman, to...
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story collection by E. W. Hornung, The Amateur Cracksman. A.J. Raffles, the celebrated cricketer, is welcomed in the parlours and country estates of high...
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Kate Lester (category American expatriates in the United Kingdom)
Lester's last films were released in 1925. They are The Meddler, Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman, and The Price of Pleasure. She attained initial success in...
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notes Niven portrayed "Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman", a character resembling the Phantom, in the film Raffles in 1939. The film was "conceived as a sophisticated...
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Fagging (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
Hornung, E. W. (2003) [1899]. Richard Lancelyn Green (ed.). Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (Annotated ed.). London: Penguin Books. p. 3. ISBN 978-1856132824...
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Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman and Cardinal Richelieu in The Three Musketeers (1930, West End). In 1926, Wontner appeared in The Captive alongside Basil...
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Ides of March (disambiguation) (redirect from The Ides of March (song))
Waterfront The Ides of March (album), 2021, by Myles Kennedy "The Ides of March" (short story), an 1898 short story by E. W. Hornung in The Amateur Cracksman The...
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Frank Morgan (category Members of The Lambs Club)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, with his most celebrated performance playing the title role of The Wizard in the MGM movie The Wizard of Oz (1939). He was also briefly billed early...
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OCLC 32400101. "The Amateur Cracksman (Pilot)". TV.com. CBS Interactive. 2020. Retrieved 18 February 2020. "Raffles The Amateur Cracksman (1975)". BFI....
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Bunny Manders (category Characters in British novels of the 19th century)
Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman (also titled The Black Mask). 707 Hornung, E. W. "No Sinecure", Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman (also...
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directed 45 movies from 1912 to 1928, including The Lie (1912), Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1925) and The House of Scandal (1928). He also directed William...
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gentleman thief in a series of books by E. W. Hornung Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1917 film), a silent adaptation starring John Barrymore and Evelyn...
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the US by Scribner's, New York under the title Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman. It is the second collection of stories in Hornung's...
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[1899]. "Introduction". In Richard Lancelyn Green (ed.). Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (Reprinted ed.). London: Penguin Books. p. xli. ISBN 978-1856132824...
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who between 1909 and the late 1940s performed in nearly 200 screen productions. Born in Nashua, New Hampshire, in 1879, Long was the youngest of six children...
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List of works by E. W. Hornung (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
further seven novels and two collections of short stories. In 1899 The Amateur Cracksman was published, a series of short stories that introduced A. J. Raffles...
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Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1917) The Unchastened Woman (1918) Woman-Proof (1923) Railroaded (1923) The Trouble Shooter (1924) Hit and Run (1924) The Sea...
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Anno Dracula (category Novels about Jack the Ripper)
Anno Dracula is a 1992 novel by British writer Kim Newman, the first in the Anno Dracula series. It is an alternate history using 19th-century English...
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Henry (comics) (category Comic strips started in the 1930s)
created in 1932 by Carl Thomas Anderson. The title character is a young bald boy who is mostly mute in the comics (and sometimes drawn minus a mouth)...
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columnist and actress. At the height of her influence in the 1940s, over 35 million people read her columns. A strong supporter of the House Un-American Activities...
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The Amateur Cracksman by E. W. Hornung Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger Jr. The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence Rama the Steadfast by Valmiki The Ramayana: A Shortened...
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