The Chest of Silver

"The Chest of Silver"
Short story by E. W. Hornung
1905 Pall Mall illustration by Cyrus Cuneo
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)Crime fiction
Publication
PublisherCollier's Weekly
Media typePrint (Magazine)
Publication dateJanuary 1905
Chronology
SeriesA. J. Raffles
 
Out of Paradise
 
The Rest Cure

"The Chest of Silver" is a short story by E. W. Hornung, and features the gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, and his companion and biographer, Bunny Manders. The story was published in January 1905 by Collier's Weekly in New York, and in February 1905 by Pall Mall Magazine in London. It was also included as the second story in the collection A Thief in the Night, published by Chatto & Windus in London, and Charles Scribner's Sons in New York, both in 1905.