The Amateur Cracksman
, by Hornung, E. W.- ISBN: 9788132033554 | 8132033558
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 9/30/2008
It was half-past twelve when I returned to the Albany as a last desperate resort. The scene of my disaster was much as I had left it. The baccarat-counters still strewed the table, with the empty glasses and the loaded ash-trays. A window had been opened to let the smoke out, and was letting in the fog instead. Raffles himself had merely discarded his dining jacket for one of his innumerable blazers.