"Nine Points of the Law" is a short story by E. W. Hornung, and features the gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, and his companion and biographer, Bunny Manders.

[2] Raffles shows Bunny a remarkable advertisement in The Daily Telegraph offering two thousand pounds for an unspecified task.

That moment, a replying telegram arrives, from a famously shady lawyer named Addenbrooke.

Addenbrooke, now reluctant, informs them of the illicit job: to take back his client's priceless Velasquez painting, which has been falsely sold by the client's miscreant son for a paltry five thousand pounds, while avoiding public scandal.

The next day, Raffles tells Bunny he learned from Sir Bernard that there is one copy of the painting in the country.

Raffles leaves, and Bunny spends the remaining hours preparing his conversational skills.

The episode closely follows the plot of the original story, with some minor changes: An adaptation of "Nine Points of the Law" aired in 2007 as part of Raffles, the Gentleman Thief, a series on the American radio show Imagination Theatre.