{"product_id":"2940013033184","title":"A Thief in the Night","description":"Contents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Out of Paradise\u003cbr\u003e  The Chest of Silver\u003cbr\u003e  The Rest Cure\u003cbr\u003e  The Criminologists' Club\u003cbr\u003e  The Field of Phillipi\u003cbr\u003e  A Bad Night\u003cbr\u003e  A Trap to Catch a Cracksman\u003cbr\u003e  The Spoils of Sacrilege\u003cbr\u003e  The Raffles Relics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOut of Paradise\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf I must tell more tales of Raffles, I can but back to our earliest\u003cbr\u003edays together, and fill in the blanks left by discretion in existing\u003cbr\u003eannals.  In so doing I may indeed fill some small part of an infinitely\u003cbr\u003egreater blank, across which you may conceive me to have stretched my\u003cbr\u003ecanvas for the first frank portrait of my friend.  The whole truth\u003cbr\u003ecannot harm him now.  I shall paint in every wart.  Raffles was a\u003cbr\u003evillain, when all is written; it is no service to his memory to glaze\u003cbr\u003ethe fact; yet I have done so myself before to-day.  I have omitted\u003cbr\u003ewhole heinous episodes.  I have dwelt unduly on the redeeming side.\u003cbr\u003eAnd this I may do again, blinded even as I write by the gallant glamour\u003cbr\u003ethat made my villain more to me than any hero.  But at least there\u003cbr\u003eshall be no more reservations, and as an earnest I shall make no\u003cbr\u003efurther secret of the greatest wrong that even Raffles ever did me.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI pick my words with care and pain, loyal as I still would be to my\u003cbr\u003efriend, and yet remembering as I must those Ides of March when he led\u003cbr\u003eme blindfold into temptation and crime.  That was an ugly office, if\u003cbr\u003eyou will.  It was a moral bagatelle to the treacherous trick he was to\u003cbr\u003eplay me a few weeks later.  The second offence, on the other hand, was\u003cbr\u003eto prove the less serious of the two against society, and might in\u003cbr\u003eitself have been published to the world years ago.  There have been\u003cbr\u003eprivate reasons for my reticence.  The affair was not only too\u003cbr\u003eintimately mine, and too discreditable to Raffles.  One other was\u003cbr\u003einvolved in it, one dearer to me than Raffles himself, one whose name\u003cbr\u003eshall not even now be sullied by association with ours.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152501096688,"sku":"2940013033184","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013033184_p0.jpg?v=1763575617","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013033184","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}