# A Thief in the Night — Character guide

> Key figures in A Thief in the Night by E. W. Hornung.

- [A. J. Raffles](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_thief_in_the_night_se/characters/raffles.md): Raffles moves easily between Lord's cricket ground and locked Mayfair bedrooms, and he is the one who talks Bunny into every scheme. His pleasure lies less in the loot than in the performance: he savors dining among crim
- [Bunny](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_thief_in_the_night_se/characters/bunny.md): Bunny is a man of small means and large debts, kept afloat by Raffles's generosity and drawn into his orbit by a loyalty he cannot quite justify. He lends his respectable banking account to launder Raffles's takings and 
- [Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_thief_in_the_night_se/characters/unknown_narrator.md): This narrator looks back on the earliest days of his friendship with Raffles, promising a frank portrait that hides nothing, including the wrong that cost him the woman he loved. He admits he has softened the record befo
- [Barney Maguire](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_thief_in_the_night_se/characters/maguire.md): Barney Maguire greets strangers with a fist and a threat, then claps them on the back once he remembers a face. His den is a locked stronghold of boxing trophies and wary hospitality, and he is quick to assume any intrud
- [Mr. Medlicott](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_thief_in_the_night_se/characters/medlicott.md): Young Medlicott looks like a man of eighty in the body of a beardless boy, hauling himself up the stairs by the banisters between gasping pauses. Even mid-attack he studies the visitor carefully, refusing to surrender th
- [Lord Thornaby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_thief_in_the_night_se/characters/thornaby.md): Lord Thornaby presides over a dinner of criminologists and guests, a host whose European reputation rests on theory rather than practice. He has never married, never spoken in the Lords, and never allowed his photograph 
- [Phillipi Nipper Nasmyth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_thief_in_the_night_se/characters/nasmyth.md): Nipper Nasmyth belongs to Raffles's wider sporting and social circle, the kind of old comrade whose troubles arrive already steeped in awkwardness. His entanglements at the Phillipi field give the partnership a job that 
- [The Colonel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_thief_in_the_night_se/characters/the_colonel.md): A mysterious figure who hires Raffles for a job.

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