E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung Audiobooks

About the author

Born in Middlesbrough, England, in 1866, Ernest William Hornung was educated at Uppingham School and, because of poor health, spent time in Australia as a young man. Those Australian years later found their way into his fiction, and after returning to Britain he built a career as a journalist, novelist, and short-story writer.

He is most famous for the Raffles stories, featuring A. J. Raffles, a fashionable cricketer who is also a thief. The character is often remembered as a kind of criminal mirror to Sherlock Holmes, and that connection was especially noticed because Hornung married Constance Doyle, sister of Arthur Conan Doyle. Hornung also wrote novels, poems, and war-related pieces, showing a wider range than readers sometimes expect.

Hornung died in 1921, but Raffles kept his name in print and helped shape the modern antihero in popular fiction. His stories still stand out for their brisk pacing, witty tone, and unusual sympathy for a lawbreaker who is as elegant as he is dangerous.

E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

31 Audiobooks

The Amateur Cracksman

Dead Men Tell No Tales

Mr. Justice Raffles

No Hero

Peccavi

At Large

Tiny Luttrell

Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front

Witching Hill

Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman

Fathers of Men

A Bride from the Bush

Stingaree

A Thief in the Night: A Book of Raffles' Adventures

A Thief in the Night: Further adventures of A. J. Raffles, Cricketer and Cracksman

The Unbidden Guest

The Thousandth Woman

The Shadow of the Rope

The Shadow of a Man

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of E. W. Hornung

My Lord Duke

The Young Guard

Young Blood

The Camera Fiend

Some Persons Unknown

The Boss of Taroomba

The Ballad of Ensign Joy

Denis Dent: A Novel

The Crime Doctor

Varastaiteilija

'Trusty and well beloved' : the little record of Arthur Oscar Hornung, Second lieutenant 3rd (attached 2nd) Essex Regiment

About the author