Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England on 7th June 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and influence much of his written works. His most famous character A. J. Raffles, 'the gentleman thief', was published first in Cassell's Magazine during 1898 and was to make him famous across the world as the new century dawned. Hornung also wrote several stage plays and was a gifted poet. Spending time with the troops in WWI he published Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front during 1919, a detailed account of his time there. This was especially close to his heart as his son, and only child, was killed at the Second Battle of Ypres on 6th July 1915. Ernest William Hornung died in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, in the south of France on 22nd March 1921. Index of Contents CHAPTER I - A NUCLEUS OF FORTUNE CHAPTER II - SUNDOWN CHAPTER III - AFTER FOUR YEARS CHAPTER IV - HOW DICK CAME HOME CHAPTER V - THE FIRST EVENING AT GRAYSBROOKE CHAPTER VI - SISYPHUS CHAPTER VII - SOUTH KENSINGTON CHAPTER VIII - THE ADMIRABLE MILES CHAPTER IX - A DANCING LESSON AND ITS CONSEQUENCES CHAPTER X - AN OLD FRIEND AND AN OLD MEMORY CHAPTER XI - DRESSING, DANCING, LOOKING ON CHAPTER XII - "TO-MORROW, AND TO-MORROW, AND TO-MORROW" CHAPTER XIII - IN BUSHEY PARK CHAPTER XIV - QUITS CHAPTER XV - THE MORNING AFTER CHAPTER XVI - MILITARY MANOEUVRES CHAPTER XVII - "MILES'S BEGGARS" CHAPTER XVIII - ALICE SPEAKS FOR HERSELF CHAPTER XIX - CONTERMINOUS COURSES CHAPTER XX - STRANGE HUMILITY CHAPTER XXI - AN ALTERED MAN CHAPTER XXII - EXTREMITIES CHAPTER XXIII - THE EFFECT OF A PHOTOGRAPH CHAPTER XXIV - THE EFFECT OF A SONG CHAPTER XXV - MELMERBRIDGE CHURCH CHAPTER XXVI - AT BAY CHAPTER XXVII - THE FATAL TRESS CHAPTER XXVIII - THE EFFORT CHAPTER XXIX - ELIZABETH RYAN CHAPTER XXX - SWEET REVENGE CHAPTER XXXI - THE CHARITY OF SILENCE CHAPTER XXXII - SUSPENSE: REACTION CHAPTER XXXIII - HOW DICK SAID GOOD-BYE E.W. HORNUNG - A SHORT BIOGRAPHY E.W. HORNUNG - A CONCISE BIBLIOGRAPHY