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- A. J. Raffles
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Arthur J. Raffles is a character created in the 1890s by E. W. Hornung,
a brother-in-law to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes.
Raffles is, in many ways, a deliberate inversion of Holmes he is
a "gentleman thief," living in the Albany, a prestigious address
in London, playing cricket for the Gentlemen of England and supporting
himself by carrying out ingenious burglaries. He is called the "Amateur
Cracksman", and often, at first, differentiates between himself and
the "professors" professional criminals from the lower
classes.
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