"A Trap to Catch a Cracksman" is a short story by E. W. Hornung, and features the gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, and his companion and biographer, Bunny Manders.

Barney Maguire, the heavyweight champion of the United States who is in England to fight a leading British contender, had met Raffles and Bunny at the Imperial Sporting Club a week ago and invited them to his home.

However, Raffles faints before he can tell Bunny over the phone the nature of the trap was that has indeed caught him.

Horrified, Bunny rushes to Maguire's house in Half-moon Street, and rings repeatedly, but to no answer.

After fulfilling his grim task, Bunny returns to his own flat, only to find it has been burgled in his absence.

Raffles cheerfully tells him that the police will now blame the telephone call on the unknown burglar's scheme of drawing Bunny from his rooms, in order to burgle them.