AJ Delp

“Again I see him, leaning back in one of the luxurious chairs with which his room was furnished. I see his indolent, athletic figure; his pale, sharp, clean-shaven features; his curly black hair; his strong, unscrupulous mouth. And again I feel the clear beam of his wonderful eye, cold and luminous as a star, shining”
― E.W. Hornung, The Complete Raffles Collection

“I like accuracy for its own sake, strive after it myself, and am sometimes guilty of forcing it upon others.
-Bunny”
― E.W. Hornung, A Thief in the Night

“Money lost -- little lost. Honour lost -- much lost. Pluck lost -- all lost.”
― E. W. Hornung, Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman

“I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.”
― H.G. Wells