- Adaptation Overdosed: Nowhere near the extent of the Holmes stories, but there have been several unrelated films, a 14-episode television series, various radio and theater plays, as well as numerous pastiches, including The Hound of the D'Urbervilles, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Anno Dracula, a play by Graham Greene (Author) and works by Barry Perowne. Depending on the author and the adaptation, Raffles can be an Anti-Hero or a Villain Protagonist, Bunny a Plucky Comic Relief or a genuinely capable criminal, and Bunny and Raffles mere friends or lovers.
- Follow the Leader: While not the first Gentleman Thief, Raffles was a popular enough character that he inspired a slew of other works, most notably Trope Codifier Arsène Lupin.
- Genre Popularizer: At the time, a criminal protagonist who got away with his crimes was virtually unhead-of, but the popularity of the stories helped to strengthen the Gentleman Thief genre.
- Inspiration for the Work:
- The Sherlock Holmes stories, natch.
- Hornung had one experience with a burglar in his lifetime (though the burglar was unimpressive and Hornung helped to capture him).
- Early prototypes of Bunny and Raffles appear in Hornung's 1896 short story "After the Fact". In the story (set in Australia) a young man, Bower, discovers that the man he used to fag for at school, Deedes, is a burglar.
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