of the Raffles stories, he is used as a more major character in several adaptations of Raffles, for example the 1977 television series Raffles. There...
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Raffles is a 1977 television series adapted from the A. J. Raffles stories by E. W. Hornung. The stories were adapted by Philip Mackie. Set in Victorian...
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statesman Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, the founder of modern Singapore. It is the flagship property of Raffles Hotels & Resorts, and is managed by AccorHotels...
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Look up Raffles in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Raffles may refer to: Sir Stamford Raffles (1781–1826), British statesman, Lieutenant Governor of Java...
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Raffles is a 1939 American crime comedy film starring David Niven and Olivia de Havilland, and is one of several film adaptations of an 1899 short story...
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Arthur J. Raffles (usually called A. J. Raffles) is a fictional character created in 1898 by E. W. Hornung, brother-in-law of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,...
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E. W. Hornung (section Introducing Raffles: 1898–1914)
Hornung's Raffles stories for radio, first in the 1940s and again from 1985 to 1993 in the radio series Raffles. Nigel Havers narrated some of the stories on...
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Minor Sherlock Holmes characters (redirect from Raffles Holmes)
theory, Holmes married Marjorie in 1883, and she died giving birth to Raffles later that year. Since Raffles and Holmes are contemporaries, it has been...
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Imagination Theatre (redirect from Raffles, the Gentleman Thief)
Raffles in the BBC radio series Raffles. Raffles, the Gentleman Thief does not have any double-length episodes. Raffles and Bunny appear in an episode of...
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had been filmed previously as Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1917) with John Barrymore as Raffles, and again as Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1925)...
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The stories of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle have been very popular as adaptations for the stage, and later film, and still later television...
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moneylender who is Raffles's fence. Raffles arrives, having sold the emeralds; however, Baird seems to have deduced that the disguised Raffles is actually a...
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The Spoils of Sacrilege (category A. J. Raffles short stories)
dinner-party. Raffles prepares himself and his tools for the job, but on the understanding that Bunny will lead. On the night of the dinner-party, Raffles and Bunny...
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engages a hansom and searches the streets for Raffles, without success. Bunny sits up all night at home, miserably waiting for Raffles. In the morning...
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The Chest of Silver (category A. J. Raffles short stories)
after Raffles again Bunny visits the Albany to find Raffles packing his large pieces of silver into an enormous chest. Bunny assumes that Raffles is fleeing...
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The Knees of the Gods (category A. J. Raffles short stories)
we don't, and thinking won't make us see over their shoulders." — Raffles tells Bunny that their fates are out of their hands Raffles and Bunny lose...
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The Return Match (category A. J. Raffles short stories)
him go back." — Raffles, to Bunny Crawshay smoothly tells Raffles that Raffles must find a way to get Crawshay out of the country. Raffles acknowledges to...
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Anthony Valentine (section Early life and education)
Mohn in Colditz (1972–74), the suave titular gentleman thief in Raffles (1977), and the murderous Baron Gruner in the Sherlock Holmes episode "The Illustrious...
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Nine Points of the Law (category A. J. Raffles short stories)
hard up, and we go into this thing together or not at all." — Raffles, to Addenbrooke The lawyer meets them, but recognizes Raffles. Raffles insists that...
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No Sinecure (category A. J. Raffles short stories)
— Bunny, amazed by Raffles's reveal Raffles reveals that he is disguising himself as Maturin to maintain the belief that Raffles is dead. Theobald does...
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"The Raffles Relics" is a short story by E. W. Hornung, and features the gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, and his companion and biographer, Bunny Manders...
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The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton (category Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle)
Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton" was also inspired by the A. J. Raffles short story "Wilful Murder" by E. W. Hornung, according to Richard Lancelyn Green...
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checks he wrote for Raffles and the others are worthless. When Raffles does not express sympathy, Bunny tries to leave. Raffles detains him. Agitated...
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houses. Raffles suspects the burglar is really a society gentleman who steals while attending social functions. Raffles has used this suspicion, and the lists...
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Le Premier Pas (category A. J. Raffles short stories)
together at the Albany. Raffles decides to finally tell Bunny the tale of his first crime: Raffles is in Melbourne for the Test match, and runs into debt. He...
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The Wrong House (category A. J. Raffles short stories)
in New York, both in 1901. Raffles is now living with Bunny in Ham Common as Bunny's colonial brother, Ralph. Raffles and Bunny occasionally commit burglaries...
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A Costume Piece (category A. J. Raffles short stories)
readiness with his own gun. Raffles is eager to steal the diamonds. Bunny agrees to help, though neither man is hard-up. Raffles retorts that this challenge...
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Titoudao (redirect from Titoudao: Inspired by the True Story of a Wayang Star)
the Jubilee Hall Raffles Hotel by theatre company, Toy Factory Productions, in 1994. The play was restaged again in 2000, 2007 and 2015. In 2020, the...
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Gentleman thief (category Anime and manga terminology)
adventurer, and later hero created by Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail in 1857. A. J. Raffles, and his accomplice Bunny Manders, from the Raffles stories by E...
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Arsène Lupin (section Stories by other writers)
E. W. Hornung's gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, whose stories were published from 1898 to 1909. Both Raffles and Lupin have inspired later characters such...
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