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

[1] The story was also included in the collection The Amateur Cracksman, published by Methuen & Co. Ltd in London, and Charles Scribner's Sons in New York, both in 1899.

At dinner, the rector's talkative daughter confides in Bunny that a Scotland Yard detective is on the lookout for two well-known thieves in the area.

The rector's daughter points out the five thousand pound necklace that one guest, Lady Melrose, is wearing.

On the cricket field, a lucky catch early on assures him his pride, despite his mediocre gameplay.

Bunny holds the waiter, and Mackenzie runs downstairs to find the man's accomplices.

Raffles, amused, praises the thieves' trick of lowering the jewellery box out of Lady Melrose's window.

Raffles shows Bunny a brief glimpse of Lady Melrose's stolen necklace, removed from its case.

[4] The drama features Jeremy Clyde as Raffles and Michael Cochrane as Bunny.

The episode closely follows the plot of the original story, with some minor changes: "Gentlemen and Players" was adapted as the fifth episode of Raffles, the Gentleman Thief, a series on the American radio show Imagination Theatre.