"No Sinecure" is a short story by E. W. Hornung, and features the gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, and his companion and biographer, Bunny Manders.

Bunny, now an ex-convict and struggling journalist, receives a telegram from an estranged relative telling him to read an advertisement in the Daily Mail, which says that a man named Mr. Maturin is seeking a male nurse of good education.

He orders Theobald to leave, then asks Bunny to fetch him his hidden cigarettes.

Later, back at Earl's Court, Raffles reveals to Bunny that he kept the real box, after swapping it with a duplicate.

[5] 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: