A Thief in the Night

Name: A Thief in the Night
Rating: 3.74 (485 reviews)

by E W Hornung Book 3 in the Raffles series.

First published 1905

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Bunny looks back to episodes omitted from his earlier account of life with Raffles. The ten stories fill gaps in their partnership, returning to the period when Raffles could still move between cricketing celebrity, fashionable rooms and nocturnal crime without openly losing his social standing.

The collection includes thefts from friends and enemies, encounters with amateur criminologists, disguises, traps and attempts to recover objects connected with the pair’s past. Its retrospective structure gives Bunny a more reflective voice and makes the glamour of Raffles’s methods compete with the personal cost of deception and dependence.