Nine Points Of The Law

About “Nine Points Of The Law”

"Nine Points of the Law" is a short story by E. W. Hornung, featuring the gentleman thief A. J. Raffles and his companion and biographer, Bunny Manders. It was first published in September 1898 by Cassell's Magazine. The story was later included as the sixth in the collection The Amateur Cracksman, published by Methuen & Co. Ltd in London and Charles Scribner's Sons in New York in 1899. The story is part of a series that centers on Raffles, a skilled and charismatic thief who operates with a code of honor. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)