The Thief Takers

Author : Alissa Johnson
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781492620518

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A Talent for Trickery by Alissa Johnson Pdf

"In a plot that twists, turns and surprises, Johnson has woven a compelling romance between two stubborn, endearing people. If you love smart heroines, intelligent heroes, witty dialogue and clever mystery plots, this gem of a historical romance might steal your heart."—Bookpage Detective Inspector Owen Rednerwell once found himself entangled with Charlotte Walker, the daughter of an infamous criminal. Now his new case will draw him back to the woman he could never forget. Years ago, Owen Renderwell earned acclaim—and a title—for the dashing rescue of a kidnapped duchess. But only a select few knew that Scotland Yard's most famous detective was working alongside London's most infamous thief...and his criminally brilliant daughter, Charlotte Walker. Lottie was like no other woman in Victorian England. She challenged him. She dazzled him. She questioned everything he believed and everything he was, and he has never wanted anyone more. And then he lost her. Now a private detective on the trail of a murderer, Owen has stormed back into Lottie's life. She knows that no matter what they may pretend, he will always be a man of the law and she a criminal. Yet whenever he's near, Owen has a way of making things complicated...and long for a future that can never be theirs.

Author : Sheldon S. Steinberg
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609112585

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The Thief-Takers by Sheldon S. Steinberg Pdf

Master Foundryman Peter Garye is seeking revenge upon the villains who brutally murdered his father on their farm in Staffordshire, England. But his journey of vengeance takes an unexpected turn when he foils a highwayman's attempted robbery and ends up learning the lucrative practice of thief-taking - capturing and turning in criminals for reward money. As Peter continues the search for his father's killers, he and his partner, George Ludlow, realize their not-so-legitimate business venture is as dangerous as it is profitable. As they attempt to foil the criminal plans of notorious Thief-Taker General Jonathan Wild, Peter and George suddenly find themselves targets in an elaborate scheme crafted by the very mastermind behind Peter's father's death. Based on actual events in 18th century London, The Thief-Takers is an intriguing latticework of greed, deception and cold-blooded justice. Dr. Sheldon S. Steinberg has written numerous health-related publications and was lead author on Government, Ethics, and Managers, A Guide to Solving Ethical Dilemmas in the Public Sector. He taught personal and community health at Brooklyn and Queens Colleges in New York City and Southern Illinois University. Dr. Steinberg also directed public and professional education programs for various companies and contracts with federal agencies. He and his wife, Stella, have been married for 61 years and have four children and five grandchildren. They live in Silver Spring, Maryland. http: //www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/TheThief-Takers.htm

Author : Alissa Johnson
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781492620549

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A Gift for Guile by Alissa Johnson Pdf

She's a liar. She's a con. She's a thief. And God help him, but he'll do anything to keep her safe. Beautiful and conniving, maddening and brilliant, Esther is everything private detective Samuel Brass shouldn't want. Esther knows she's put herself in terrible danger, but nothing will stop her from making amends-not her family's enemies, not old fears, and certainly not the domineering, interfering, and undeniably handsome former officer of the Scotland Yard. Yet whenever he's near, Samuel makes her long for a life that can never be hers...and wish she were worthy of being saved. Second in an exciting late Victorian romance series from a RITA Award nominee! Thief Takers Series: A Talent for Trickery, Book 1 A Gift for Guile, Book 2 Dangerous Deceit, Coming Soon "From the first page, Johnson seizes readers' attention... Losing none of her witty dialogue or clever plotting, she pulls readers this way and that as the story swiftly turns from suspense to romance and back again."-RT Book Reviews on A Talent for Trickery

Author : Stephen Deas
Publisher : Gollancz
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575094505

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The Thief-Taker's Apprentice by Stephen Deas Pdf

Berren has lived in the city all his life. He has made his way as a thief, paying a little of what he earns to the Fagin like master of their band. But there is a twist to this tale of a thief. One day Berren goes to watch an execution of three thieves. He watches as the thief-taker takes his reward and decides to try and steal the prize. He fails. The young thief is taken. But the thief-taker spots something in Berren. And the boy reminds him of someone as well. Berren becomes his apprentice. And is introduced to a world of shadows, deceit and corruption behind the streets he thought he knew. Full of richly observed life in a teeming fantasy city, a hectic progression of fights, flights and fancies and charting the fall of a boy into the dark world of political plotting and murder this marks the beginning of a new fantasy series for all lovers of fantasy - from fans of Kristin Cashore to Brent Weeks.

Author : George Vaughan (Bow-Street officer)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1816
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017700288

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The Whole Four Trials of the Thief Takers, and Their Confederates, G. V., R. Mackay, G. Brown, ... Convicted ... of a Horrible Conspiracy to Obtain Blood Money, and of Felony and High Treason, Etc by George Vaughan (Bow-Street officer) Pdf

Author : Geoff Tibballs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Thief takers (Television program)
ISBN : 0747525188

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Thief Takers by Geoff Tibballs Pdf

Author : T.F. Banks
Publisher : Dell
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307491831

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The Thief-Taker by T.F. Banks Pdf

June 1815. When Henry Morton is called to the scene at Portman House in Claridge Square, the Bow Street constable finds a man dead in a hackney coach--ostensibly of asphyxiation. He was Halbert Glendinning, a gentleman of unsullied character. Then why was he seen frequenting one of London’s most notorious dens of iniquity? And why has the driver of the coach vanished into the night? While Sir Nathaniel Conant, the chief magistrate at Number 4 Bow Street, accepts the official verdict of accidental death, Morton is certain that Glendinning was a victim of foul play. With the help of actress Arabella Malibrant, one of London’s most celebrated beauties, he embarks on his own discreet inquiry. And as the upper circles of London society close ranks against him, Morton races to unmask a killer whose motives are as complex and unfathomable as the passions that rule the human heart.

Author : Patrick Pringle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Criminal investigation
ISBN : UOM:39015016493010

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The Thief-takers by Patrick Pringle Pdf

Author : Lee O'Keefe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0747525218

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Thief Takers by Lee O'Keefe Pdf

Author : J. M. Beattie
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2001-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191543326

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Policing and Punishment in London 1660-1750 by J. M. Beattie Pdf

This study examines the considerable changes that took place in the criminal justice system in the City of London in the century after the Restoration, well before the inauguration of the so-called 'age of reform'. The policing institutions of the City were transformed in response to the problems created by the rapid expansion of the metropolis during the early modern period, and as a consequence of the emergence of a polite urban culture. At the same time, the City authorities were instrumental in the establishment of new forms of punishment - particularly transportation to the American colonies and confinement at hard labour - that for the first time made secondary sanctions available to the English courts for convicted felons and diminished the reliance on the terror created by capital punishment. The book investigates why in the century after 1660 the elements of an alternative means of dealing with crime in urban society were emerging in policing, in the practices and procedures of prosecution, and in the establishment of new forms of punishment.

Author : Gerald Howson
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1412839882

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Thief-Taker General by Gerald Howson Pdf

The historical literature of political deviance is sparse. This unusual work, chronicling the history of Jonathan Wild, represents an effort to come to terms with one of the more amazing characters of English social history. Wild was both part of the policy system in eighteenth-century England, and also one of the most adroit criminals of the age. In the 1720s, London suffered the worst crime waves in its history. Civic corruption took place on a staggering scale. The government's answer was to pay a bounty for the capture of robbers, thus creating a class of professional informers. Wild was applauded as the most efficient thief hunter and gang breaker in British society; but his own posse of thief catchers was basically a front behind which he was able to control the underground world, through a complex system of blackmail, perjury, and terror which the book details. All who opposed him were betrayed to the law, and in the struggle for power Wild sacrificed several hundred of his own people to the hangman. No one since his time, with the exception of Lavrenti Beria of the late Stalin era GPU so nearly succeeded in bringing the underworld under the control of one system of power. At one level, this is a biography of the world's first supercriminal. At another, it is a sociology of criminal behavior and its political consequences. Howson sheds fresh light, not only on a figure who has become famous in literature, but more important, on the entire structure of gang life. The book is written "as a "terrifying and fascinating study of a historical epoch; it also offers a completely fresh picture of the birth of modern organized-crime families as part of modern organized political systems.

Author : Patrick Pringle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:459619651

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The Thief-takers, by Patrick Pringle by Patrick Pringle Pdf

Author : Frank Leishman,Paul Mason
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135995591

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Policing and the Media by Frank Leishman,Paul Mason Pdf

Focusing on the interplay between policing realities, public perception and media reflections, this text provides an accessible account of the relationship between policing and the media.

Author : Christopher Buehlman
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250621184

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The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman Pdf

Set in a world of goblin wars, stag-sized battle ravens, and assassins who kill with deadly tattoos, Christopher Buehlman's The Blacktongue Thief begins a 'dazzling' (Robin Hobb) fantasy adventure unlike any other. Kinch Na Shannack owes the Takers Guild a small fortune for his education as a thief, which includes (but is not limited to) lock-picking, knife-fighting, wall-scaling, fall-breaking, lie-weaving, trap-making, plus a few small magics. His debt has driven him to lie in wait by the old forest road, planning to rob the next traveler that crosses his path. But today, Kinch Na Shannack has picked the wrong mark. Galva is a knight, a survivor of the brutal goblin wars, and handmaiden of the goddess of death. She is searching for her queen, missing since a distant northern city fell to giants. Unsuccessful in his robbery and lucky to escape with his life, Kinch now finds his fate entangled with Galva's. Common enemies and uncommon dangers force thief and knight on an epic journey where goblins hunger for human flesh, krakens hunt in dark waters, and honor is a luxury few can afford. “The Blacktongue Thief is fast and fun and filled with crazy magic. I can't wait to see what Christopher Buehlman does next." - Brent Weeks, New York Times bestselling author of the Lightbringer series At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Alissa Johnson
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781492620525

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Talent for Trickery by Alissa Johnson Pdf

The Lady is a Thief Years ago, Owen Renderwell earned acclaim-and a title-for the dashing rescue of a kidnapped duchess. But only a select few knew that Scotland Yard's most famous detective was working alongside London's most infamous thief...and his criminally brilliant daughter, Charlotte Walker. Lottie was like no other woman in Victorian England. She challenged him. She dazzled him. She questioned everything he believed and everything he was, and he has never wanted anyone more. And then he lost her. Now a private detective on the trail of a murderer, Owen has stormed back into Lottie's life. She knows that no matter what they may pretend, he will always be a man of the law and she a criminal. Yet whenever he's near, Owen has a way of making things complicated...and long for a future that can never be theirs.