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  • THE BALLAD OF ENSIGN JOY
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    THE BALLAD OF ENSIGN JOY
    E. W. HORNUNG
    Excerpt: "It is the story of Ensign Joy And the obsolete rank withal That I love for each gentle English boy Who jumped to his country's call. By their fire and fun, and the deeds they've done, I would gazette them Second to none Who faces a gun in Gaul!" ...

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  • MY LORD DUKE
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    MY LORD DUKE
    E. W. HORNUNG
    A simple plot that steadily grows more complex. The book opens with supposed Duke Claude Lafont discussing the whereabouts of his lawyer, who he sent to Australia to search for the hitherto unkwn heir to his Uncle's Dukedom. Jake Darrendall a cat loving sheepherder from the bush of Australia. Hornung gets all the mileage he can out of such a simple premise with several twists. ...

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  • THE YOUNG GUARD
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    THE YOUNG GUARD
    E. W. HORNUNG
    Excerpt: "Last summer, centuries ago, I watched the postman's lantern glow, As night by night on leaden feet He twinkled down our darkened street. So welcome on his beaten track, The bent man with the bulging sack! But dread of every sleepless couch, A whistling imp with leathern pouch! And now I meet him in the way And earth is Heaven, night is Day, For oh! there shines before...

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  • PECCAVI
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    PECCAVI
    E. W. HORNUNG
    The story is largely one of sin and redemption. It emphasizes the intolerance of the late Victorian society by drawing from the prejudice and rigidity of Long Stow's inhabitants. The parishioners of the aforementioned village had condemned their parson as worthless upon discovering his affair with a choir girl notwithstanding the fact that he had willingly confessed to his own ...

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  • THE SHADOW OF A MAN
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    THE SHADOW OF A MAN
    E. W. HORNUNG
    Excerpt: ""And you're quite sure the place doesn't choke you off?" "The place? Why, I'd marry you for it alone. It's just sweet!" Of course it was nothing of the kind. There was the usual galaxy of log huts; the biggest and best of them, the one with the verandah in which the pair were sitting, was far from meriting the name of house which courtesy extended to it. These huts ha...

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  • NOTES OF A CAMP FOLLOWER ON THE WESTERN FRONT
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    NOTES OF A CAMP FOLLOWER ON THE WESTERN FRONT
    E. W. HORNUNG
    Excerpt: "'There's our hut!' said the young hut-leader, pointing through iron palings at a couple of toy Noah's Arks built large. 'No—that's the nth Division's cinema. The Y.M.C.A. is the one beyond.' The enclosure behind the palings had been a parade-ground in piping times; and British squads, from the pink French barracks outside the gates, still drilled there between banks o...

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  • MR.JUSTICE RAFFLES
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    MR.JUSTICE RAFFLES
    E. W. HORNUNG
    Mr. Justice Raffles is a 1909 novel written by E.W. Hornung. It featured his popular character A. J. Raffles a well-known cricketer and gentleman thief. It was the fourth and last in his four Raffles books which had begun with The Amateur Cracksman in 1899. Unlike the three previous works, the book was a full-length novel and featured darker elements than the earlier collection...

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  • TINY LUTTRELL
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    TINY LUTTRELL
    E. W. HORNUNG
    Catherine "Tiny"Luttrell is the daughter of a sheep ranch owner in Australia. and is the youngest of three siblings, who are her brother Herbert and sister Ruth. The story opens with Tiny saying good bye to her childhood home at the ranch before going to London for the season to visit the recently married Ruth. But, she also says goodbye to Jack Swift the recently promoted ranc...

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  • THE BOSS OF TAROOMBA
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    THE BOSS OF TAROOMBA
    E. W. HORNUNG
    Excerpt: "They were terribly sentimental words, but the fellow sang them as though he meant every syllable. Altogether, the song was not the kind of thing to go down with a back-block audience, any more than the singer was the class of man. He was a little bit of a fellow, with long dark hair and dark glowing eyes, and he swayed on the music-stool, as he played and sang, in a m...

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  • THE SHADOW OF THE ROPE
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    THE SHADOW OF THE ROPE
    E. W. HORNUNG
    Classic British murder/mystery written in 1906; notable for portraying women in a rather modern, favourable light, showing concern for their unequal position in society. Rachel Minchin is charged for the murder of her husband and yes the jurors are all men... (Goodreads) ...

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  • YOUNG BLOOD
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    YOUNG BLOOD
    E. W. HORNUNG
    Excerpt: "Harry Ringrose came of age on the happiest morning of his life. He was on dry land at last, and flying north at fifty miles an hour instead of at some insignificant and yet precarious number of knots. He would be at home to eat his birthday breakfast after all; and half the night he sat awake in a long ecstasy of grateful retrospect and delicious anticipation, as one ...

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  • RAFFLES FURTHER ADVENTURES OF THE AMATEUR CRACKSMAN
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    RAFFLES FURTHER ADVENTURES OF THE AMATEUR CRACKSMAN
    E. W. HORNUNG
    Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman. It is the second collection of stories in Hornung's series concerning A. J. Raffles, a gentleman thief in late Victorian London. Following the events of the final story of the preceding short story collection, the reputations of A. J. Raffles and his companion Bunny Manders are ruined. Raffles is assumed to have drowned in t...

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  • A THIEF IN THE NIGHT A BOOK OF RAFFLES' ADVENTURES
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    A THIEF IN THE NIGHT A BOOK OF RAFFLES' ADVENTURES
    E. W. HORNUNG
    A Thief in the Night is a 1905 collection of short stories by E. W. Hornung. The stories feature Hornung's popular character A. J. Raffles. It was the third book in the series, and the final collection of short stories. In it, Raffles, a gentleman thief, commits a number of burglaries in late Victorian England. A full-length Raffles novel, Mr. Justice Raffles, would follow in 1...

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  • AT LARGE
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    AT LARGE
    E. W. HORNUNG
    Excerpt: "A hooded wagon was creeping across a depressing desert in the middle of Australia; layers of boxes under the hood, and of brass-handled, mahogany drawers below the boxes, revealed the licensed hawker of the bush. Now, the hawker out there is a very extensive development of his prototype here at home; he is Westbourne Grove on wheels, with the prices of Piccadilly, W. ...

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  • DENIS DENT A NOVEL
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    DENIS DENT A NOVEL
    E. W. HORNUNG
    Excerpt: ""Land ahead!" The North Foreland had been made advisedly snug for the night. In the middle watch she was under her three lower topsails and fore topmast staysail only. Not that it blew very hard, but the night was dark and hazy, with a heavy swell. And it was the last night of the voyage. At eight bells there had been a cast of the deep-sea lead, with the significant ...

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  • THE AMATEUR CRACKSMEN
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    THE AMATEUR CRACKSMEN
    E. W. HORNUNG
    The Amateur Cracksman is an 1899 short story collection by E. W. Hornung. A national sporting hero, Arthur J. Raffles[note 1] is a prominent member of London society. As a cricketer, he regularly represents England in Test matches. He uses this as cover to commit a number of burglaries, primarily stealing valuable jewellery from the elite of London, for thrill and profit. He is...

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  • DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES
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    DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES
    E. W. HORNUNG
    The classic story ties together themes of adventure and romance. Hornung’s traditional writing style is incredibly descriptive and can be often relaxing to read. The story of Dead Men Tell No Tales doesn’t rush but rather takes it’s time to develop characters and provide indulgent details for readers. The tale of Mr. Cole and Ms. Eva is an excellent addition to any library and ...

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  • SOME PERSONS UNKNOWN
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    SOME PERSONS UNKNOWN
    E. W. HORNUNG
    Excerpt: "Kenyon had been more unmanageable than usual. Unsettled and excitable from the moment he awoke and remembered who was coming in the evening, he had remained in an unsafe state all day. That evening found him with unbroken bones was a miracle to Ethel his sister, and to his great friend John, the under-gardener. Poor Ethel was in charge; and sole charge of Kenyon, who ...

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  • THE CRIME DOCTOR
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    THE CRIME DOCTOR
    E. W. HORNUNG
    In the tradition of the Great Detective, Sherlock Holmes, we present E.W. Hornung's THE CRIME DOCTOR. John Dollar, a former soldier recovering from a head injury, becomes an amateur sleuth as well as a man of medical science- one with a unique outlook on the criminal mind, and how to treat this growing threat to Crown and Country; and as the villains will discover, he stands re...

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  • WITCHING HILL
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    WITCHING HILL
    E. W. HORNUNG
    Witching Hill is a collection of short stories by E. W. Hornung. The stories revolve around the apparently supernatural happenings that occur on the housing estate of Witching Hill, and the combined efforts of the estate's clerk, Gillon, and a resident, Delavoye, to manage them. ...

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  • A BRIDE FROM THE BUSH
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    A BRIDE FROM THE BUSH
    E. W. HORNUNG
    An interesting and easy to read story about an Australian bride of an upperclass Englishman and the problems both she and her in-laws have adjusting to each other. (Goodreads) ...

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  • THE THOUSANDTH WOMAN
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    THE THOUSANDTH WOMAN
    E. W. HORNUNG
    Excerpt: "Cazalet sat up so suddenly that his head hit the woodwork over the upper berth. His own voice still rang in his startled ears. He wondered how much he had said, and how far it could have carried above the throb of the liner's screws and the mighty pounding of the water against her plates. Then his assembling senses coupled the light in the cabin with his own clear rec...

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  • STINGAREE
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    STINGAREE
    E. W. HORNUNG
    Stingaree is a 1905 novel by E. W. Hornung about an Australian bushranger. It was allegedly based on the Kelly Gang. ...

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  • FATHERS OF MEN
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    FATHERS OF MEN
    E. W. HORNUNG
    Excerpt: "The two new boys in Heriot’s house had been suitably entertained at his table, and afterwards in his study with bound volumes of Punch. Incidentally they had been encouraged to talk, with the result that one boy had talked too much, while the other shut a stubborn mouth tighter than before. The babbler displayed an exuberant knowledge of contemporary cricket, a more c...

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  • THE CAMERA FIEND
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    THE CAMERA FIEND
    E. W. HORNUNG
    A gruesome tale! A somewhat immature teenage boy, Tony 'Pocket' Upton, goes to London to consult a doctor about his asthma and finds himself without a place to stay. He decides to spend the night in the park. The next thing he knows he is standing with a gun in his hand, and a body at his feet. The inescapable conclusion is that Pocket has shot him while sleep-walking. Another ...

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  • THE UNBIDDEN GUEST
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    THE UNBIDDEN GUEST
    E. W. HORNUNG
    Excerpt: "Arabella was the first at the farm to become aware of Mr. Teesdale's return from Melbourne. She was reading in the parlour, with her plump elbows planted upon the faded green table-cloth, and an untidy head of light-coloured hair between her hands; looking up from her book by chance, she saw through the closed window her father and the buggy climbing the hill at the o...

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  • RAFFLES: FURTHER ADVENTURES OF THE AMATEUR CRACKSMAN
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    RAFFLES: FURTHER ADVENTURES OF THE AMATEUR CRACKSMAN
    E. W. HORNUNG
    Sophisticated mayhem from a master of crime fiction Since his friend and partner in crime, A. J. Raffles, jumped into the Mediterranean, Bunny Manders has scraped along as best he can. At Raffles's side, he was witness to, and participant in, the most ingenious burglaries the underworld had ever seen. Without him, Bunny is a struggling ex-convict, so down on his luck that he an...

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  • A THIEF IN THE NIGHT
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    A THIEF IN THE NIGHT
    E. W. HORNUNG
    The third installment in the irresistible adventures of A. J. Raffles, the thief who gives crime a good name For weeks, Bunny Manders has scoured the sporting papers, looking for word of his vanished friend—the cricketer, playboy, and gentleman thief A. J. Raffles. A mysterious message lures Bunny to a darkened side street, where he finds Raffles in filthy clothes, with an unke...

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  • RAFFLES: THE AMATEUR CRACKSMAN
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    RAFFLES: THE AMATEUR CRACKSMAN
    E. W. HORNUNG
    The cracking debut of A. J. Raffles, proper English gentleman and jewel thief extraordinaire Sometimes the greatest of partnerships are born in the direst of moments. For Bunny Manders and A. J. Raffles, such a moment comes when a bad night at the baccarat tables threatens to end in suicide. Hundreds of pounds in the red, Bunny grows so desperate that he asks Raffles, a former ...

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