The Autobiography of a Thief by Hapgood, Hutchins, 1868-1944

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Eveline Mandeville Or, The Horse Thief Rival by Addison, Alvin

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Arsène Lupin gentleman-thief by Leblanc, Maurice 1864-1941

A Thief in the Night Further adventures of A. J. Raffles, Cricketer and Cracksman by Hornung, E. W., 1866-1921 (Ernest William)

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The Red Fairy Book

“…The twelve dancing princesses -- The princess Mayblossom -- Soria Moria Castle -- The death of Koschei the Deathless -- The black thief and knight of the glen -- The master thief -- Brother and sister -- Princess Rosette -- The enchanted pig --…”
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Edna's Sacrifice and Other Stories by Baden, Frances Henshaw, -1911

“…Edna's Sacrifice -- Who Was the Thief? -- The Ghost -- The Two Brothers -- What He Left.…”
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Michelangelo's Shoulder by Wetterau, John Moncure

“…Michelangelo's shoulder -- Waiting for happiness -- Coming to -- Guayaquil -- Four pictures and a flower thief.…”
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Hindu Tales from the Sanskrit

“…The magic pitcher -- The story of a cat, a mouse, a lizard and an owl -- A royal thief-catcher -- The magic shoes and staff -- The jewelled arrow -- The beetle and the silken thread -- A crow and his three friends -- A clever thief -- The hermit…”
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Short Stories by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881

“…An honest thief -- A novel in nine letters -- An unpleasant predicament -- Another man's wife -- The heavenly Christmas tree -- The peasant Marey -- The crocodile -- Bobok -- The dream of a ridiculous man.…”
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Black Tales for White Children by Stigand, C. H., 1877-1919 (Chauncy Hugh)

“…Foreword -- The lion of Manda -- Pemba Muhori -- The cat's tail -- The young thief -- The trapper, the lion and the hare -- Nunda the slayer and the origin of the one-eyed -- The woodcutter and his donkey -- Kitangatanga of the sea -- The lion's…”
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The Grey Fairy Book

“…Donkey Skin -- The Goblin Pony -- An Impossible Enchantment -- The Story of Dschemil and Dachemila -- Janni and the Draken -- The Partnership of the Thief and the Liar -- Fortunatus and his Purse -- The Goat-faced Girl -- What came of picking Fl…”
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The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3 by Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893

“…The Viaticum -- The Relics -- The Thief -- A Rupture -- A Useful House -- The Accent -- Ghosts -- Crash -- An Honest Ideal -- Stable Perfume -- The Ill-Omened Groom -- An Exotic Prince -- Virtue in the Ballet -- In His Sweetheart's Livery -- Del…”
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Room Number 3, and Other Detective Stories by Green, Anna Katharine, 1846-1935

“…Room number 3 -- Midnight in Beauchamp Row -- The ruby and the caldron -- The little steel coils -- The staircase at Heart's Delight -- The amethyst box -- The grey lady -- The thief -- The house in the mist.…”
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Pardners by Beach, Rex, 1877-1949

“…Pardners -- The mule driver and the garrulous mute -- The colonel and the horse-thief -- The thaw at Slisco's -- Bitter Root Billings, arbiter -- The shyness of Shorty -- The test -- North of fifty-three -- Where northern lights come down o' nig…”
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More Celtic Fairy Tales

“…The fate of the children of Lir -- Jack the cunning thief -- Powel, Prince of Dyfed -- Paddy O'Kelly and the weasel -- The black horse -- The vision of MacConglinney -- Dream of Owen O'Mulready -- Morraha -- The story of the MacAndrew family --…”
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The golden age of piracy the truth behind pirate myths by Little, Benerson 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Death's head and marrow bones -- "False optics" and Blackbeard the pirate -- Pirate ships and pirate prey -- Not by walking the plank -- "False optics: and the Great Pirate Roberts -- Epic combat at sea -- Thief or rebel? -- Dueling and democracy -- Titillation with a cutlass -- Not every man created equal -- Pirate heaven -- Buried treasure, sunken treasure…”

Gangsta granny by Walliams, David 1971-

The hausa of Nigeria by Salamone, Frank A.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- wrestling with identity: from newbie to elder -- Hausa states -- Hausa shamans -- Up close and personal in the field -- Colonialism and the creation of ethn ic identity -- Indirect rule and the reinterpretation of tradition: Abdullahi of Yauri -- Indirect rule continued -- Religious change in a northern Nigerian emirate -- Competitive conversion and its implications for modernized Nigeria -- Religion as play: Bori, a friendly "witchdoctor" -- Hausa Islamic practices -- Hausa culture and personality -- Erikson in Nigeria: exploring the universality of the theory of psychosocial development -- Muslim African women and kinship -- Hausa wrestling and ethnic boundaries -- The Waziri and the thief: Hausa Islamic law in a Yoruba city, a case study from Ibadan, Nigeria -- Student teachers and change -- Children's games in Nigeria redux: a consideration of the "uses" of play -- Dukawa views on death…”

Six of crows by Bardugo, Leigh

Economics and morality anthropological approaches /

Table of Contents: “…Little -- Extreme gifting : the moral economy of a community school / Rhoda H. Halperin -- Thiefing a chance : moral meanings of theft in a Trinidadian garment factory / Rebecca Prentice -- Patriotism, profits and waste : the moral dimensions of low-level radioactive disposal in Texas / Cynthia Werner -- Virtue at the checkout till : salvation economics in Kenyan flower fields / Catherine S. …”
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