A Thief in the Night vs The Black Mask: Further Adventure of the Amateur Cracksman: Which Should You Read?

A Thief in the Night E. W. Hornung · 1905 ★★★★☆ 3.8 106 pages · ≈ 1 h 58 m · Challenging

“If I must tell more tales of Raffles, I can but back to our earliest days together, and fill in the blanks left by discretion in existing annals.”

First published in 1905, A Thief in the Night is the third collection of stories detailing the exploits and intrigues of gentleman thief A. J. Raffles in late Victorian England. In public a popular sportsman, in private…

The Black Mask: Further Adventure of the Amateur Cracksman E. W. Hornung · 1975 186 pages · ≈ 3 h 27 m · Challenging

First published in 1901, The Black Mask is the second collection of stories detailing the exploits and intrigues of gentleman thief A. J. Raffles in late Victorian London. Raffles was E. W. Hornung's most famous…