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A Thief in the Night

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First published: 1905
Pages: 151

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6 h 11 min · 10 parts

Out of Paradise
41:31
The Chest of Silver
34:32
The Rest Cure
39:45
The Criminologists' Club
43:57
The Field of Phillipi
44:31
A Bad Night
35:16
A Trap to Catch a Cracksman
42:00
The Spoils of Sacrilege
38:44
The Raffles Relics
39:01
The Last Word
12:21

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By this third collection, published in 1905, A. J. Raffles has become one of the most beloved rogues in English fiction: a gentleman by day, a burglar by night, and always a step ahead of Scotland Yard. Narrated as ever by his loyal, faintly hapless friend Bunny Manders, these stories fill in the gaps of the pair's earlier career, from their first tentative crimes as respectable men about town to a later life on the run. Hornung conceived Raffles as a deliberate inversion of Sherlock Holmes, and the appeal lies in rooting for the thief. Wit, nerve, and a streak of real feeling run through every escapade, along with a shadow of the reckoning that trails such a life.

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E. W. Hornung

Ernest William Hornung invented A. J. Raffles, the cricketing gentleman thief whose burglaries reach us through his admiring accomplice Bunny Manders. Raffles arrived in an 1898 magazine story and was collected the following year as The Amateur Cracksman, with The Black Mask in 1901 and A Thief in the Night in 1905.