Word: thief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Philip Hart when Hart retires next year-until last April, when word came down that Swainson was under investigation on bribery charges. Last week a federal grand jury in Detroit handed up a seven-count indictment of Swainson, charging that in 1972 he accepted $20,000 from a convicted thief in exchange for securing a supreme court review of the man's conviction. Swainson has entered a plea of not guilty...
Edward Pierce, master criminal, aims to snaffle ?12,000 in old bullion bound for the British troops in the Crimea. Playing between the parlors of the rich and the Dickensian dens of the criminal underworld, the aristocratic thief outwits crushers (cops), noses (informers) and Establishment nibs to assemble the four keys needed to grab the gold. By subversion, bribery and tricks far dirtier than the king's men ever dreamed of, the ringleader and his scruffy accomplices come within a sniff of the swag, only to meet their greatest obstacle: an obscure law of physics...
...priceless jewel, and Clouseau must find out what happened to it. His major suspect-who, needless to say, is probably innocent-is the suave cat burglar Sir Charles Litton (Christopher Plummer), a character amusingly and lovingly modeled on Gary Grant in Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief. Litton must track down the real culprits while Clouseau stalks him. There is little question of ever catching Litton, of course, but the unnatural disasters that Clouseau's pursuit can bring might make any man cautious...
...about patrolling the streets; soon they began making rounds heavily armed and only in groups of at least five. Lawbreakers, when caught, have been dealt with harshly. Saigon's Liberation Daily, the only newspaper authorized to be published in the capital, has reported cases of soldiers capturing a thief, quickly questioning eyewitnesses, and then summarily executing the prisoner...
Raisuli, Sherif of the Berbers ("The blood of the prophets flows in me") kidnaps a beautiful American woman, Eden Pedecaris ("He is a brigand and a lout") and sweeps her off to his castle in the desert. President Theodore Roosevelt is outraged ("Arabian thief! I want respect!"), and the U.S. Government dispatches an ultimatum to the powers in Morocco: "Mrs. Pedecaris alive, or Raisuli dead." There follow fights, betrayals, skirmishes, duels, U.S. Marine action and a couple of full-fledged battles. Nothing much like it ever happened in history, but it makes for a lovely adventure...