cracksman

  • 11cracksman — n. (pl. men) sl. a burglar, esp. a safe breaker …

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  • 12The Master Cracksman — Directed by Harry Carey Produced by Harry Carey Written by Harry Carey Starring Harry Carey …

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  • 13The Cracksman — is a 1963 British comedy film directed by Peter Graham Scott.PlotCharlie Drake plays an honest locksmith whose problem is that he cannot resist the challenge of a lock. He gets smoothtalked into a safecracking scheme by a couple of ruthless… …

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  • 14The Amateur Cracksman — Infobox short story | name = The Amateur Cracksman title orig = translator = author = E.W. Hornung country = flagicon|United Kingdom UK language = English series = AJ Raffles genre = Crime fiction publication type = publisher = pub date = 1899… …

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  • 15A Trap to Catch a Cracksman — was a short story written by Ernest William Hornung featuring his most famous creation A. J. Raffles, a cricketer and Gentleman thief. It was first published in 1905 in the collection A Thief in the Night.Raffles attempts to rob the boxer Barney… …

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  • 16Raffles, The amateur Cracksman —    E. W. Hornung and Eugene W. Presbrey collaborated on this four act comedy based on Hornung s stories, produced by Liebler & Co. at the Princess Theatre, where it opened on 27 October 1903 for 168 performances. Presbrey directed Kyrle Bellew as …

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  • 17Cracksmen — Cracksman Cracks man (kr?ks man), n., pl. {Cracksmen} ( men). A burglar. [Slang] [1913 Webster] …

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  • 18A. J. Raffles — Arthur J. Raffles is a character created in the 1890s by E. W. Hornung, a brother in law to Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Raffles is, in many ways, a deliberate inversion of Holmes  he is a gentleman thief, living in… …

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  • 19Хорнунг, Эрнест Уильям — В Википедии есть статьи о других людях с такой фамилией, см. Хорнунг. Эрнест Уильям Хорнунг Ernest William Hornung Псевдонимы: Willie Hornung Дата рождения …

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  • 20Ernest William Hornung — (June 7, 1866 ndash; March 22, 1921), known as Willie, was an English author, most famous for writing the Raffles series of novels about a gentleman thief in late Victorian London.Hornung was the third son of John Peter Hornung, a Hungarian, and… …

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