A Thief in the Night · Character
Barney Maguire
A hulking Irish-American prizefighter with sequined trophies and a hair-trigger temper, dangerous enough to make Raffles watch his step.
supporting
Also known as Maguire, the terrible Barney, Barney
First appearance: the chest of silver
As a supporting figure in A Thief in the Night, Barney Maguire is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
Heavyweight champion who set the trap; returns home to find Bunny at his door.
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 intruder is a crook worth flattening. As a rival with brute force and a suspicious eye, he raises the stakes whenever Raffles's schemes stray into his territory.
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Narrative arc
Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
This excerpt is the dramatic climax because it reveals the long-withheld truth about Raffles’s final act of he…
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See Barney Maguire in the chest of silver