pre-raffleites

Updated: May 13, 2025

The clerk's reply came pat and unexpected. "The greatest burgular we ever had," said he, "till good old Raffles knocked him out!" "The greatest of the pre-Raffleites," the master murmured, as we passed on to the safer memorials of mere murder.

E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung - A Thief in the Night: a Book of Raffles' Adventures