Collected Short Stories

Collected Short Stories is a book by E. W. Hornung. Hornung was an English author and poet known for writing the A. J. Raffles series. Excerpt: «Now Sergeant Clancy, the new man at Cockatoo Corner, was, in his way, a special person; he was quite different from the ordinary mounted constable of the Colonies, His speciality was an imagination of his own. This imagination was of the restless kind which would have proved a distinct advantage in the detective department down in Sydney; but in the back-blocks it was no advantage at all.»