Arthur John Raffles - cricketer, man-about-town... and burglar.
E. W. Hornung wrote twenty-six short stories and one novel concerning this fascinating character. The short stories were published in three volumes, the first of which was dedicated to his brother-in-law - Arthur Conan Doyle, who did, of course, write the Sherlock Holmes stories. Raffles was intended as an inversion of Holmes, although Doyle did consider making the villain the hero to be somewhat 'dangerous'.
A number of other writers have also written stories about Raffles. I have, of course, completely ignored such work and chosen instead to focus on that of the real author. The contents of the four volumes have been re-arranged into chronological order, as much as myself and the blog Crossroads of the Curious can ascertain. I am also grateful to Project Gutenberg for making the text available.
Anyway, here is the .zip file. When you download it, it will appear in your 'Downloads' folder. When you see it, right-click on it and select 'Extract all'. You'll get an .azw3 file, an .epub file and a large .mobi file. I find the .azw3 best for my Kindle device and the .mobi best for Kindle for PC. Most other e-readers prefer .epub files. You, of course can use them however you like.
I've made this as well-presented and as easy to navigate as I can, with a proper linked contents page, chapter stops etc. Still, there's an extra contents page at the end of the book - a side-effect of the 'Calibre' program. Hope that doesn't bother you too much.
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