 The character continued in book form : the writer Philip Atkey , under the pseudonym Barry Perowne , obtained permission from the Hornung estate to continue the Raffles stories , and seven more novels followed between 1933 and 1940 , with Raffles transformed from a gentleman thief to a tough adventurer . Perowne continued the series in 1950 , and 14 of his stories were published in the 1974 volume Raffles Revisited . Hornung 's original stories have undergone a number of reprints , and when all the short stories were published in a single volume , Graham Greene considered it " a splendid idea " . In 1975 Greene had written a play based on the Raffles stories , The Return of A.J. Raffles , which premiered at the Royal Shakespeare Company , with Denholm Elliott as Raffles . 
 The character continued in book form : the writer Philip Atkey , under the pseudonym Barry Perowne , obtained permission from the Hornung estate to continue the Raffles stories , and seven more novels followed between 1933 and 1940 , with Raffles transformed from a gentleman thief to a tough adventurer . Perowne continued the series in 1950 , and 14 of his stories <a href='uninflect' title='1'><mark>were</mark></a> published in the 1974 volume Raffles Revisited . Hornung <a href='null_genetive' title='2'><mark>'s</mark></a>original stories <a href='been_done' title='3'><mark>have</mark></a> undergone a number of reprints , and when all the short stories <a href='uninflect' title='4'><mark>were</mark></a> published in a single volume , Graham Greene considered it " a splendid idea " . In 1975 Greene <a href='been_done' title='5'><mark>had</mark></a> written a play based on the Raffles stories , The Return of A.J. Raffles , which premiered at the Royal Shakespeare Company , with Denholm Elliott as Raffles . 
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