pickpockets

A twelve-year-old street urchin and the son of Chicago's most important jeweler strike up an unlikely friendship in the days before the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, and both are nearly trapped when the city goes up in flames.

While helping their father search for the "Ivory Idol, " Joe and Frank discover a connection between their current case at a carnival in town, a stuffed whale dug up at a local construction site, and the "Ivory Idol.".

After he and his father are arrested as pickpockets, Benno is separated from the bear he had raised and come to love when the bear is sent to a zoo and Benno is taken in by a kindly policeman and his wife.

Chronicles the life of George Washington Appo, a career criminal who served as leader of New York's underworld in Gilded Age New York and describes the social, economic, and cultural atmosphere of the city during his life.

A ten-year-old orphan is arrested for picking pockets in London in 1731 and sent to America to serve as an indentured servant.