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whats crime and cricket? ur fanart looks interesting

ah thank u! 'crime and cricket' is the fandom tag for the Raffles series by E.W. Hornung, since the character name is difficult to use as a tag lmao It's mostly short stories with one novel, all narrated by Bunny who is the old school friend turned partner and accomplice of AJ Raffles, a gentleman thief who uses his fame as an amateur cricket player as a cover for his secret life as a burglar! They were sort of based on Holmes and Watson if they were criminals instead of detectives, but there's a lot more to them than that and they're really compelling stories that i have become completely obsessed with

if you wanna read any, Raffles Redux is my go-to as its full of annotations with extra context and illustrations etc, but the books are all public domain so they're easy enough to find online copies of. I would definitely reccomend reading these in order since theyre pretty serialised - but if you're not sure, the first 'The Ides Of March' and third 'Gentlemen Vs Players' are good intro stories for getting the feel of them

Also, im only about half-way through the first story but i am obligated to boost my own comic book adaptation ive been working on >:)

#fdkfksf sorry if u just wanted a title and not like the whole pitch #and i didnt even get into the infodump about who Else raffles is based on and all the seemingly deliberate queer signifiers #but i think that stuff is more fun to find on ur own as u get into them :)#there is also a tv show from the 70s which is an excellent adaptation but is not what im drawing fanart for mostly #it is all on youtube tho #oh fwiw the ides of march does contain a suicide threat! just as a warning #and uh unfortunately also warning that being crime fiction by an english dude in the 1890s #there is some pretty rough antisemitism and racism #it doesnt show up in most of the stories thankfully but where it does its pretty bad #crime and cricket

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