Lord Lister No. 0036: De mooie jongedame

The homosexual in literature by Noel I. Garde is a literary survey written in the mid-20th century. It maps how authors across periods and languages have portrayed same-sex desire, blending bibliography with pointed commentary to help scholars and general readers find, contextualize, and assess key works. The opening of the work follows the gentleman-thief Raffles, “de Groote Onbekende,” and his aide Charly Brand at a country hideout, where Raffles prepares a new scheme that sends them to London. After casing women’s fashion houses, they stage a nocturnal break-in to assemble a complete ladies’ wardrobe and train Charly to pass convincingly as a woman. Raffles then rescues a despairing servant of Lord Landsdale from the Thames and learns a jeweler (Brill) has likely swapped out a costly diamond necklace and blamed the servant. He needles Inspector Baxter with a public prank, later humiliates him via Charly’s disguise, and moves to right the wrong: using pristine banknotes, Charly “buys” the necklace, after which Raffles—posing as Baxter—confiscates the jewels as “evidence” and reclaims the cash as purported counterfeits. The sequence ends with the real Baxter bewildered when the jeweler arrives at Scotland Yard to collect his property. (This is an automatically generated summary.)