About “The Spoils of Sacrilege”
"The Spoils of Sacrilege" is a short story by Ernest William Hornung, featuring the gentleman thief A. J. Raffles and his companion and biographer, Bunny Manders. It was first published in August 1905 in Pall Mall Magazine in London. The story was later included as the seventh entry in the collection A Thief in the Night, published by Chatto & Windus in London and by Charles Scribner's Sons in New York, both in 1905. The story is part of a series that centers on Raffles, a skilled and charismatic thief who operates with a code of honor. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
Book details
- First published
- 1905