I'm a big indie author reader and love to support their writing (see my sig).
I did venture out on some of the suggestions here and one of the first books that I read outside of my usual choices was, "Rats, Bats and Vats" by Dave Freer and Eric Flint. I was surprised how much I liked it and went on to read the second book, "The Rats, the Bats and the Ugly".
http://www.baen.com/library/
And, well, due to the Sherlock Holmes books, I have the
ePub edition of HarryT's Raffles omnibus uploaded by mtravellerh on my list.
from Wiipedia via mtravellerh
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A.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 "The Albany", a very upscale address in London, playing cricket for the "Gentlemen of England" and supporting himself by carrying out ingenious burglaries. He is called the "Amateur Cracksman," and often, at first, differentiates between himself and the "professors" — professional criminals from the lower classes.
As Holmes has Dr. Watson to chronicle his adventures, Raffles has Harry "Bunny" Manders — a former schoolmate saved from disgrace and suicide by Raffles, who persuaded him to accompany him on a burglary. While Raffles often takes advantage of Manders' relative innocence, and sometimes treats him with a certain amount of contempt, he knows that Manders' bravery and loyalty are utterly to be relied on. In several stories, Manders saves the day for the two of them after Raffles gets into situations he cannot get out of on his own.
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