When her best cow, Goldie, is stolen by the robber Nasty Galoot, Nell Nugget uses her horse, her dog, her piano, and her other forty-eight cows to get Goldie back.
When she lets lots of cats into her house to get rid of the mice that are keeping her awake, old Mrs. Mudge finds that she has a new problem on her hands.
Introduces eleven outlaws from different historical periods and from different parts of the world including Blackbeard, Ned Kelly, and Bonnie and Clyde.
Criminals and bad guys from the Old West to Japan are put to the test in this thrilling book. Each historical villains personal history and strengths and weaknesses are thoroughly detailed. Blackbeard vs. Eric the Red and Vlad the Impaler vs. Atilla the Hun are just some of the exciting bouts imagined in this volume.
The Skaa, having slaved in misery for a thousand years under the corrupt, absolute power of the Lord Ruler, still manage to find hope, which rises once again when a criminal mastermind teams up with an unlikely heroine.
Explores a number of high-profile bank robbers including Frank and Jesse James, John Dillinger, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; and examines the laws and techniques used to capture criminals.
In Victorian London, after his life is saved by a young physician, a thief utilizes the knowledge he gains in prison and from the scientific lectures he attends as the physician's case study exhibit to create a new, highly successful, double life for himself.
