The Queue
I suppose I should not regard The Amateur Cracksman & The Black Mask as two different books since they are collected together in one volume, The Complete Raffles, Volume One: The Amateur Cracksman & The Black Mask. Yes, each was published individually in the long long ago, but they're each only a hundred fifty pages, & even at that the book is in a fairly large font. So, two short volume or one proper length book. There is also a companion volume, The Complete Raffles, Volume Two: A Thief in the Night & Mr. Justice Raffles, which I shall read on my next planned break from espionage fiction. Speaking of which, I am taking a brief sojourn to read the finale of the comic book series Queen & Country, a favorite of mine back in the day but which fell by the wayside due to general disillusionment with the other works of the writer, Greg Rucka. Comics are flimsy little things & read quickly, even in collections; I'll soon be done with Operations: SADDLEBAGS & RED PANDA; then back to the exploits of Raffles, Gentleman Thief; followed by a return to Ruritania; & then back into the spy game with Lord Tweedsmuir & The Thirty-nine Steps. Then more of Len Deighton, at least SS-GB; the rest of le Carré's "Karla trilogy," & perhaps more; additional intrigues with Richard Hannay if The Thirty-nine Steps pans out; & beyond. My personal case of spymania shows no signs of abating.

Recently
Sloane Crosley, I Was Told There'd Be Cake
Drew Karpyshyn, Star Wars: Darth Bane: Path of Destruction
E. W. Hornung, The Amateur Cracksman

Currently
Greg Rucka & various artists, Queen & Country: Operation: SADDLEBAGS (Vol. 7) & Operation: RED PANDA (Vol. 8)

Presently
E. W. Hornung, The Black Mask
Anthony Hope, Rupert of Hentzau
John Buchan, The Thirty-nine Steps
John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy
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Jeffery Deaver, Carte Blanche

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