Ernest William Hornung 
Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman 

pub One.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. I am still uncertain which surprised me more, the telegram calling my attention to the advertisement, or the advertisement itself. The telegram is before me as I write. It would appear to have been handed in at Vere Street at eight o’clock in the morning of May 11, 1897, and received before half-past at Holloway B. O. And in that drab region it duly found me, unwashen but at work before the day grew hot and my attic insupportable.