A Thief in the Night (short story collection)

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A Thief in the Night

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

A Thief in the Night is a 1905 collection of short stories by E. W. Hornung. It was published in the UK by Chatto & Windus, London, and in the US by Scribner's, New York.^[1]

The stories feature Hornung's 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.

A full-length Raffles novel, Mr. Justice Raffles, would follow in 1909.