![]() ![]() Some years later this style of hero was exploited to even greater effect by Leslie Charteris' creation, the Saint. Hornung, which is that the public like to read about a charming rogue who gets away with his crimes. The Romney Pringle stories are based on the same idea as the earlier Raffles stories by E.W. As a sign of things to come, Pringle is a knowledgeable chemist and gemologist (expert in gems and crystals), although his forensic skills are by no means as well developed as Freeman's greatest creation, Dr Thorndyke. His victims are usually, but not always, criminals. Romney Pringle styles himself as a literary agent but he is, in fact a con-man who lives by non-violent crime, usually fraud. ![]() These two sets of stories were first published in book form in the early 1970s. Another six stories, The FurtherĪdventures of Romney Pringle, were published in Cassells Magazine in 1903. ![]() It was through one of these jobs that he met the medical officer at Holloway prison, John Pitcairn, and collaborated with him on a series of six short stories, The Adventures of Romney Pringle, first published in Cassells Magazine in 1902, under the pseudonym Clifford Ashdown. Freeman was unable to find a permanent medical position and was forced to take work as a locum, filling in for other, more fortunate doctors. ![]()
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