- Adorkable: Bunny, a baby-faced aspiring writer whose childish enthusiasm for capers and constant fretting about his "invisible" mustache are quite endearing.
- Fair for Its Day: Hornung supported women's suffrage, and the female characters in the Raffles stories are (for the most part) capable, intelligent and strong-willed women, and some of them are successful in their careers.
- Ho Yay: The series is known for its incredibly high Ho Yay quotient.
- Magnificent Bastard: Written as an answer to Sherlock Holmes himself by Arthur Conan Doyle's brother in law, AJ Raffles is a charming Gentleman Thief who frequently robs the wealthy members of Victorian high society, with a special emphasis on honorless 'new rich' types, one point even stealing a valuable artifact from a museum and gifting it to the Queen herself for the Diamond Jubilee. Cunning and charming, Raffles repeatedly pulls off heists while sticking to his own curious code of honor, his exploits chronicled by his loyal friend Bunny. Raffles is rarely at a loss and just as good at being a criminal as Holmes is at detective work.
- Strangled by the Red String: "An Old Flame", also a Psycho Ex-Girlfriend.
- Tear Jerker: Raffles's death in the war and Bunny's reaction to it.
- Unintentional Period Piece: The books are chock-full of Victorian era trivia, mores and personalities, and the years the books take place in can normally be easily pinpointed by the observant reader. (It's 1891-1900).
- Values Dissonance: The books have their share of anti-Semitic and racist remarks.
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