# The Black Mask — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for The Black Mask by E. W. Hornung.

- [No Sinecure](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_mask_se/chapters/no-sinecure.md): Raffles and Bunny are living in a small flat in Albany, where Raffles is restless and bored with their quiet life. He decides to take up a new challenge: breaking into a house in the country, but the plan goes awry when 
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_mask_se/chapters/i.md): Bunny, living in poverty and writing articles on prison life, receives a telegram from his estranged relative urging him to apply for a male nurse position advertised in the Daily Mail. After pawning his suit, he travels
- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_mask_se/chapters/ii.md): Raffles reveals to Bunny how he faked his death and escaped, now living under the alias Mr. Maturin. He explains his elaborate scheme to locate Bunny through his prison articles and a carefully orchestrated advertisement
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_mask_se/chapters/iii.md): Raffles and Bunny, under assumed identities, stage an elaborate scheme to deceive a jeweler, Mr. Robinson, into handing over valuable gems. Raffles uses a duplicate cigarette box to swap the jewels, leaving the jeweler w
- [A Jubilee Present](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_mask_se/chapters/a-jubilee-present.md): Raffles steals a historic gold cup from the British Museum's Room of Gold during the Diamond Jubilee, but his obsession with the artifact leads him to devise a risky plan to hide it in plain sight. After a reconnaissance

> 15 more chapter companions — [open a free preview](https://www.betterreads.dev/reader?bookId=the_black_mask_se_390kb&preview=1) to unlock the rest.

- [The Fate of Faustina](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_mask_se/chapters/the-fate-of-faustina.md)
- [The Last Laugh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_mask_se/chapters/the-last-laugh.md)
- [To Catch a Thief](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_mask_se/chapters/to-catch-a-thief.md)
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_mask_se/chapters/i.md)
- [Chapter II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_mask_se/chapters/ii.md)
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_mask_se/chapters/iii.md)
- [An Old Flame](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_mask_se/chapters/an-old-flame.md)
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_mask_se/chapters/i.md)
- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_mask_se/chapters/ii.md)
- [The Wrong House](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_mask_se/chapters/the-wrong-house.md)
- [The Knees of the Gods](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_mask_se/chapters/the-knees-of-the-gods.md)
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_mask_se/chapters/i.md)
- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_mask_se/chapters/ii.md)
- [Chapter III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_mask_se/chapters/iii.md)
- [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_mask_se/chapters/iv.md)

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