<p>Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors.<br>August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of E. W. Hornungwhich are Dead Men Tell No Tales and The Shadow of the Rope.<br><br>E. W. Hornung was an English author and poet known for writing the A. J. Raffles series of stories about a gentleman thief in late 19th-century London. Hornung's stories dealt with a ...