A Thief in the Night Is A Book of Raffles' Adventures By E.W. Hornung. One of the reasons that the Raffles stories remain popular is that Hornung makes no attempt to paint either Raffles, or his accomplice Bunny, as saints. They steal from the innocent as well as the greedy, and they are entirely prepared to kill if necessary. Nevertheless, Raffles is always portrayed as charismatic, the kind of man people follow blindly against all sense.