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A Thief in the Night (short story collection)

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All stories are largely self-contained and independent, with the exception of the last story, which serves as an epilogue to events explored in the first story. Each story was first published in serial format, except for "The Last Word" which is a short epilogue to the events of "Out of Paradise".
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narrates additional adventures which he had previously omitted, from various points in their criminal careers. All but the last two stories take place while A. J. Raffles and Bunny Manders are still respectable gentlemen and Raffles is still an amateur cricketer who lives in rooms at the Albany.
399:, Bunny runs into his ex-fiancée, who tells him a story of an unsung kindness Raffles once did for Bunny, and also that she would like to be Bunny's friend again. "The Last Word" is significantly shorter than the other Raffles stories and was not published previously in a magazine. 126: 39: 353:" — Raffles and Bunny are invited to dine with four crime enthusiasts, who want to discuss crime in sport with the cricketer Raffles, but Bunny fears they suspect Raffles of being a thief. 392:" — While Raffles and Bunny are living in retirement in Ham Common, they learn about the Raffles Relics that are on display at the Black Museum at Scotland Yard, and decide to pay a visit. 378:" — A wealthy and brutish boxer from the United States claims to have devised an ingenious trap to catch a burglar, and Raffles, enticed by the boxer's challenge, falls right into it. 296:
The two remaining stories take place after Raffles and Bunny become professional criminals of ruined reputations: the second last story follows after the events of "
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match, Bunny is eager to prove that he can pull off the job himself.
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Bunny, Raffles, and Bunny's ex-fiancée, 1908 frontispiece by
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E.W. Hornung
A. J. Raffles
Crime fiction
Chatto & Windus
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The Black Mask
Mr. Justice Raffles
short stories
E. W. Hornung
Chatto & Windus
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A. J. Raffles
gentleman thief
Victorian
Mr. Justice Raffles
Bunny Manders
An Old Flame
The Knees of the Gods

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