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    A Thief In The Night: A Book Of Raffles' Adventures
    A Thief In The Night: A Book Of Raffles' Adventures
    A Thief In The Night: A Book Of Raffles' Adventures
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    A Thief In The Night: A Book Of Raffles' Adventures

    By E. W. Hornung

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    Classic Crime Press presents you A Thief in the Night: a Book of Raffles' Adventures in a fantastic ebook edition.
     
    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:
     
    Out of Paradise
    The Chest of Silver
    The Rest Cure
    The Criminologists' Club
    The Field of Phillipi
    A Bad Night
    A Trap to Catch a Cracksman
    The Spoils of Sacrilege
    The Raffles Relics
    The Last Word
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDead Dodo Crime Classics
    Release dateOct 1, 2015
    ISBN9781508081258
    A Thief In The Night: A Book Of Raffles' Adventures
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    E. W. Hornung

    Ernest William Hornung (1866 –1921) was a prolific English poet and novelist, famed for his A. J. Raffles series of novels about a gentleman thief in late 19th century London. Hornung spent most of his life in England and France, but in 1883 he traveled to Australia where he lived for three years, his experiences there shaping many of his novels and short stories. On returning to England he worked as a journalist, and also published many of his poems and short stories in newspapers and magazines. A few years after his return, he married Constance Aimée Doyle, sister of his friend Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, with whom he had a son. During WWI he followed the troops in French trenches and later gave a detailed account of his encounters in Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front. Ernest Hornung died in 1921.

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