Kyrle Bellew in the Broadway production of Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1903) Arthur J. Raffles (usually called A. J. Raffles) is a fictional character created in 1898 by E. W. Hornung

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Kyrle Bellew in the Broadway production of Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1903) Arthur J. Raffles (usually called A. J. Raffles) is a fictional character created in 1898 by E. W. Hornung, 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 at the Albany, a prestigious address in London, playing cricket as a gentleman (or "amateur") 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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