About the book: 2011 / Ernest William Hornung is an English writer, creator of a series of detective novels about Raffles, a charming burglar who traded during the Victorian era. This series brought the author national and subsequently worldwide fame. Hornung was married to Constance Doyle, the sister of Arthur Conan Doyle. The main character of the book “Premeditated Murder,” unsuspectingly, becomes an accomplice in the crime. It all begins with a fateful meeting at the Albany Hotel, where he confides his sorrows to his old acquaintance Raffles and turns to him for help. But the elegant London dandy has long been hatching a cunning plan…