A review by tansy
Mr. Justice Raffles by E. W. Hornung

adventurous dark tense

4.0

A strange end to the Raffles stories. This novel is darker than the majority of the short stories, with several tense action scenes. Like the stories, it is marred by the attitudes of the time, (mainly antisemitism, the novel's antagonist is a Jewish moneylender), and it's extremely hard to sympathise with the Garlands, (the friends Raffles sets out to help), two well-educated men who cannot read contracts or do basic maths. Still, the action scenes are brilliant, Camilla Belsize is an amazing character, and we get Raffles at his worst and Bunny at his best. I love these books despite their faults and have no idea what I'm going to do now I've come to the end of the series.