The Black Mask by E. W. Hornung

The Black Mask

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  • Genre Fiction & Literature
  • Publisher Graphic Arts Books
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  • Size 439.07 kB
  • Length 111 Pages

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After the events of The Amateur Cracksman Raffles is missing, presumed dead, and “Bunny” Manders is destitute but free after a stretch in prison for his crimes. So when a mysterious telegraph arrives suggesting the possibility of a lucrative position, Bunny has little option but to attend the given address.

Raffles was a commercial success for Hornung, garnering critical praise but also warnings about the glorification of crime. The Black Mask, published two years after his first collection of Raffles stories, takes a markedly more downcast tone, with the high-life escapades of the earlier stories curtailed by Raffles’ purported death.

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