{"product_id":"9781486418589","title":"The Amateur Cracksman - The Original Classic Edition","description":"The Amateur Cracksman by E. W. Hornung - The Original Classic Edition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work, which is now, at last, again available to you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBecause he had been kind to me at school, when he was captain of the eleven, and I his fag, I had dared to look for kindness from him now; because I was ruined, and he rich enough to play cricket all the summer, and do nothing for the rest of the year, I had fatuously counted on his mercy, his sympathy, his help! \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e...We crept very gingerly down the stairs, which creaked a bit in spite of us, and we picked up our shoes in the passage; then down some narrow stone steps, at the foot of which Raffles showed his light, and put on his shoes once more, bidding me do the same in a rather louder tone than he had permitted himself to employ overhead. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e...The noises that even I could hear below, with the exception of one metallic crash at the beginning, were indeed incredibly slight; but they ceased altogether at each double rap from my toe; and a policeman passed quite half a dozen times beneath my eyes, and the man whom I took to be the jewellers watchman oftener still, during the better part of an hour that I spent at the window. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e...Yet it would be very awkward if anything went wrong; one might use it, and thats not the game at all, though I have often thought that the murderer who has just done the trick must have great sensations before things get too hot for him. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e...To be quite frank, I have had them on my conscience for some time; one couldnt hear so much of the man, and his prize-fighter, and his diamonds, without feeling it a kind of duty to have a go for them; but when it comes to brandishing a revolver and practically challenging the world, the thing becomes inevitable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Emereo Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47126598254832,"sku":"9781486418589","price":7.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781486418589_p0.jpg?v=1763634687","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781486418589","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}