thimbleby

Updated: June 5, 2025

"But this much you have done before?" said I hoarsely. "Before? My dear Bunny, you offend me! Did it look like a first attempt? Of course I have done it before." "Often?" "Well no! Not often enough to destroy the charm, at all events; never, as a matter of fact, unless I'm cursedly hard up. Did you hear about the Thimbleby diamonds? Well, that was the last time and a poor lot of paste they were.

E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung - The Amateur Cracksman