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A Thief in the Night - A Book of Raffles' Adventures - cover

A Thief in the Night - A Book of Raffles' Adventures

E. W. Hornung

Publisher: Aeneas Press

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Summary

More Raffles: the amateur cracksman and Bunny break into a country house during a shooting party, rob a Chelsea studio, and are blackmailed by a man who knows. Hornung was Conan Doyle's brother-in-law and built Raffles by inverting Holmes and Watson into a burglar and his accomplice; Doyle disapproved, wrote that one should not make a criminal a hero, and was quite right, which is why it works.
Available since: 08/19/2026.
Print length: 185 pages.

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