Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Mysterious Days: 22 March, 1921: E.W. Hornung


On 22 March, 1921, E.W. Hornung, dies at Saint-Jean-de-Luz. He is the creator of A.J. Raffles, Gentleman Thief, who had created the charadcter to tweak the nose of his more conservative brother-in-law, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Bibliography
The Mystery Book of Days, William Malloy, The Mysterious Press, 1990

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