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
Melmoth (comics) on what Gerhard could find in library architecture books. He couldn't find anything specific about the doctor's office or Wilde's final resting place, aside from Wilde's "famous last line" indicating that the "wallpaper had to be really ugly." He drew inspiration from Barry Windsor Smith for the series covers. The story was originally serialized in "Cerebus" #139–150. The issues were further numbered "Melmoth Zero" ("Cerebus" #139, October 1990) through "Melmoth Eleven" ("Cerebus" #150, September 1991), although this numbering is not acknowledged in the collection. The collection appeared in October 1991. It included an 11-page text section with reproductions of letters