Thief in the Night - Version 2

The final chapter in the legendary gentleman thief's career. A.J. Raffles died in the Boer War, but his accomplice Bunny Manders has kept secrets. Now, with Raffles gone, Bunny finally reveals the stories he once suppressed: burglaries committed across late Victorian England, each one more daring than the last. Raffles steals with aristocratic flair, quotes poetry while picking locks, treats burglary as an art form. Bunny loves him and hates himself for it. The narration carries a elegiac weight, because we know from the start that we are reading about a dead man. Hornung writes with sharp wit and period precision, capturing both the glittering surface of Edwardian society and its shadowy criminal underside. This is a series that helped define the gentleman thief archetype, and this final collection shows why Raffles remains one of literature's most seductive rogues.