Welcome to Crime and Cricket!

Your online repository of resources for the stories about A. J. Raffles and his accomplice Bunny Manders by E. W. Hornung!

Raffles was, in the first half of the twentieth century, a household name and staple of British literary and popular culture. The stories were perhaps the foil to Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes series, and indeed rivaled them in popularity. However, Raffles has since mostly fallen out of the public consciousness. This site aims, at least in part, to make these stories more accessible again.

This site was launched in October 2023 with the intention of becoming a guide of sorts, where fans of Raffles (and newbies to the stories, too!) can be directed to further reading, annotations of the stories, historical resources, and more. I might write some more articles or essays of my own, once I get this site off the ground.

This site is technically viewable on mobile, but it looks best on desktop. It’s also under construction, so please forgive any bugs right now.

Updates

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24 Apr 2025:
I now have a custom RSS feed, not just the default Neocities feed. I've also finished the Film and Television sections of the Adaptations page.

About the Webmaster

I'm Quincey (he/him)! I've been a fan of Raffles for a few years now. I also love history and literature, so I decided to combine these interests and create this site.

Questions? Suggestions? Something broken? You can contact me by email, on my Tumblr by sending me an ask or a direct message, or on Discord. To leave a more public message, you can sign my guestbook!

Community

This is an indie website and a passion project, so I’d appreciate it immensely if you shared it with people you think would be interested! If you have a site of your own, you can link back here with this button (no hotlinking please!):

Credits

The code for this site is based on the Layout Builder tool by sadgrl. I have modified it for my own purposes, but the bones are mainly hers. The photoshop template I used for the text/logo in the header is by supersources.

The inspiration for this site came from the now-defunct Annotated A. J. Raffles website by Lisa D. Jenkins. My site is partly an attempt to fill the niche her site used to occupy.