“Raffles” is based on the 1899 short story collection “The Amateur Cracksman” by english writer and poet E. W. Hornung. You can read it for free here (https://archive.org/details/amateurcracksman00horn/mode/2up)
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The amateur cracksman : Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William), 1866-1921 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

290 p. : 18 cm

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Well I'm finally watching Baccano! and unless I misheard in episode 5 they just used the word Camorra, and that fascinates me.

The Camorra was historically a Neapolitan in origin gang of Brigands. But in 19th and early 20th Century fiction references to Italian Organized Crime were usually to them not the Mafia or Silly. That includes Paul Feval's Bell Demonio and it's sequel The Campions of Silence which were in turn tied into the lore of The Blackcoats (Les Habits Noirs), then at least one Sherlock Holmes story and an arch nemesis of A.J Raffles.

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