A Thief in the Night (short story collection)

A Thief in the Night

First US edition
Author	E.W. Hornung
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Series	A. J. Raffles
Genre	Crime fiction
Publisher	Chatto & Windus (UK)
Publication date	1905
Preceded by	The Black Mask
Followed by	Mr. Justice Raffles

A Thief in the Night is a 1905 collection of short stories by Ernest William Hornung, featuring his popular character A. J. Raffles. It was the third book in the series, and the final collection of short stories. In it, Raffles, a gentleman thief, commits a number of burglaries in late Victorian England.

Chronicler and accomplice Bunny Manders narrates additional adventures which he had previously omitted, from various points in their criminal careers. A full-length Raffles novel, Mr. Justice Raffles, would follow in 1909. It too was set before the Boer War, with Raffles in his heyday as a gentlemen thief.

Stories included in the book are: