brigands and robbers

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brigands and robbers

Nursery crimes

2001
For Thanksgiving Day, the fourteen pigs in the Jambonneau family trim their trees to look like turkeys, but wake up one morning to find they have all been stolen.

The Badcat gang

2007
When the Badcat Gang of stray cats plans a coup at the barbecue next door, it is little Hattie the hamster that ends up saving the day.

Road agents and train robbers

half a century of Western banditry.
1973

Oliver Twist

2006
An abridged version of the adventures of the orphan boy who is forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London.

The highwayman

1983
Returning by moonlight to the inn where his true love, the landlord's daughter, awaits him, the highwayman is unaware that the king's soldiers also lie in wait for him, concealed in the girl's bedroom.

The seven blunders of the world

2006
Joe, Fred, and Sam follow a time-warping thief back to ancient Babylon in an attempt to recover The Book which allows the trio to travel across all dimensions of time and space. Presented in graphic novel form.

Detective Small in the amazing banana caper

2007
When shop owners call on Detective Small to track down a banana thief, he follows the clues to a likely suspect, then learns that the real culprit is still on the loose.

Maude March on the run!, or, Trouble is her middle name

2007
Due to a misunderstanding over her involvement in a botched robbery, Maude, with younger sister Sallie, hides out at the home of an uncle, but when she is discovered and arrested, the orphaned sisters flee, trying to clear Maude's name.

The treasure of the Orkins

2008
When the Rat-faced Snitchers of Zoop steal a mysterious treasure from Khan, king of the Lumpies, it is up to Eric, Neal, Julie, and Keeah to follow the Snitchers back to their lair in the Dark Lands and retrieve the treasure.

Montmorency on the rocks

doctor, aristocrat, murderer?
2005
In Victorian London, when Montmorency and his alter ego, Scarper, reunite with Dr. Farcett, the two cooperate to capture a bomber and become involved in solving the mystery of the poisoning of a village of Scottish children.

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