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
Garrison Melmoth tricycle landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration. Garrison spent over 10,000 hours building the aircraft. Garrison explains how the aircraft's name was chosen, "I christened it Melmoth, after the Byronic protagonist of the nineteenth-century novel "Melmoth the Wanderer", who sells his soul to the devil for, among other valuable considerations, the ability to travel about at will in space and time." "Melmoth the Wanderer" was written by Charles Maturin and published in 1820. The aircraft was built from aluminium and incorporated exceptional fuel capacity for an amateur-built of its era, including two wingtip tanks and a main