No Sinecure by the name "Sebastian Melmoth" in reference to the novel; this fact may have inspired Hornung to use the name "Maturin" for a Raffles living in social exile. BBC Radio adapted the story into part of the thirteenth episode of its Raffles radio drama, "No Sinecure", which first aired on 30 July 1992. The drama features Jeremy Clyde as Raffles and Michael Cochrane as Bunny. The first half of the drama closely follows the plot of the original story, with some minor changes: No Sinecure "No Sinecure" is a short story by E. W. Hornung, and features the gentleman thief
Sebastian Sim Sebastian Sim Sebastian Sim (simplified Chinese: 沈岳川; pinyin: ‘‘Shěn Yuè Chuān’’) is a Singaporean author, including of wuxia novels. Sebastian grew up with parents who were part of the pioneer generation of independent Singapore. Prior to being a writer, he took up a variety of occupations, including being a bartender, a prison officer in a maximum security prison, and a croupier in a casino. Sebastian first wrote wuxia (martial arts) novels in Chinese: his first series was "The Heavenly Chef", written in 2004, and his second series, Tears of the Bat, was written in 2006. The novels were written under