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• Robbery -- United States
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• Train robberies
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• Second Thoughts Are Best: or, A Further Improvement of a Late Scheme to Prevent Street Robberies (published under "Andrew Moreton" pseudonym; London: Printed for W. Meadows, 1729), by Daniel Defoe (Gutenberg text)

• A Plan for Preventing Robberies Within Twenty Miles of London, With an Account of the Rise and Establishment of the Real Thieftakers: To Which Is Added, Advice to Pawnbrokers, Stable-keepers, and Publicans (London: A. Millar, 1755), by John Fielding
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Chase of the Golden Plate (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1906), by Jacques Futrelle, illust. by Will Grefé and E. A. Poucher (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Foes in Ambush (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1893), by Charles King (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Twice Tempted (ca. 1996), by William Manchee (HTML at williammanchee.com)

• The Masked Woman (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1920), by Johnston McCulley, illust. by Paul Stahr (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Great K. & A. Train Robbery (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1897), by Paul Leicester Ford
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Mystery of Valentine Stanlock: or, The Secret of Crag Island (text from the serial version; illustrations from serial and book versions), by William Murray Graydon (HTML in Canada)

• Defending the Bank (Boston: Lothrop Pub. Co., c1903), by Edward S. Van Zile, illust. by I. B. Hazelton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Motor Boys on the Wing: or, Seeking the Airship Treasure (New York: Cupples and Leon Co., c1912), by Clarence Young (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Witter Whitehead's Own Story: About a Lucky Splash of Whitewash, Some Stolen Silver, and a House that Wasn't Vacant (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1909), by Gardner Hunting, illust. by H. S. De Lay (multiple formats at Google)

• True Detective Stories, From the Archives of the Pinkertons (New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., c1897), by Cleveland Moffett
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Expressman and the Detective, by Allan Pinkerton (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Convict Life at the Minnesota State Prison, Stillwater, Minnesota (second edition, with Younger's "Real Facts About the Northfield, Minnesota, Bank Robbery"; St. Paul: W. C. Heilbron, 1909), by William Casper Heilbron, contrib. by Cole Younger (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself: Being an Autobiography of the Missouri Guerrilla Captain and Outlaw, His Capture and Prison Life, and the Only Authentic Account of the Northfield Raid Ever Published (Chicago: The Henneberyy Co., 1903), by Cole Younger (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Trial of Deacon Brodie (Glasgow and Edinburgh: W. Hodge and Co., 1906), ed. by William Roughead (Gutenberg text)

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• An Astrological Judgement Touching Theft (London: Printed by P. Lillicrap, 1665), by Anthony Griffin
  • multiple formats at Google
  • PDF at astrologiamedieval.com

• Ashes to Ashes (New York: R. M. McBride and Co., 1919), by Isabel Ostrander (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Five Knots (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1908), by Fred M. White (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Gentleman of Leisure (c1921), by P. G. Wodehouse (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Virginian, by Owen Wister (multiple editions)
• The Rustler: A Tale of Love and War in Wyoming (New York and London: Funk and Wagnalls Co., 1902), by Frances McElrath, illust. by Edwin Willard Deming (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rustler of Wind River (New York: A. L. Burt Co., 1917), by George W. Ogden, illust. by Frank E. Schoonover (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• To the Last Man, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• To the Last Man (Roslyn, NY: W. J. Black, c1922), by Zane Grey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge (London: David Nutt, 1904), trans. by L. Winifred Faraday (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Adèle and Co. (c1931), by Dornford Yates (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Moonstone (novel), by Wilkie Collins
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• The Puzzle Lock (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1926), by R. Austin Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Eustace Diamonds, by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text)
• The Eustace Diamonds (2 volumes; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1912), by Anthony Trollope, illust. by George Willis Bardwell (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Mystery of the Blue Train (c1928), by Agatha Christie (Gutenberg text)

• The Call of the Wild, by Jack London (multiple editions)

• Fool's Goal (1930), by B. M. Bower (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• The Mystery of the Secret Band (The Mary Lou series, #3; Akron and New York: Saalfield Pub. Co. c1935), by Edith Lavell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Missing at Marshlands (Arden Blake Mystery Series #3; New York and Chicago: A. L. Burt Co, c1934), by Cleo F. Garis
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Red Plant (Philadelphia and New York: American Sunday-School Union, c1872), by Lucy Ellen Guernsey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Barry Dare and the Mysterious Box (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1929), by Gardner Hunting (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bishop's Shadow, by Ida Treadwell Thurston, illust. by M. Eckerson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Secret Drawer (London: Sunday School Union; New York: T. Nelson and Sons, 1872), by Isabella Fyvie Mayo (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Tale of Two Bad Mice (London and New York: F. Warne and Co., 1904), by Beatrix Potter
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Meadow-Brook Girls by the Sea: or, The Loss of the Lonesome Bar (Akron, OH: Saalfield Publishing Co., c1914), by Janet Aldridge (Gutenberg text)

• Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Yellowstone National Park (Akron and New York: Saalfield Pub. Co., c1923), by Jessie Graham Flower (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Apricot Tree (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1851)
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at Florida
• Black Giles, the Poacher; With Some Account of a Family Who Had Rather Live by Their Wits Than Their Work (London: Howard and Evans, ca. 1801), by Hannah More (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Court of Cacus: or, The Story of Burke and Hare (London: Houlston and Wright; Edinburgh: W. P. Nimmo, 1861), by Alexander Leighton
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Burke and Hare (Edinburgh and London: W. Hodge and Co., 1921), ed. by William Roughead (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The History of Burke and Hare, and of the Resurrectionist Times: A Fragment from the Criminal Annals of Scotland (Glasgow: T. D. Morison; London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 1884), by George Mac Gregor
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Trial of William Burke and Helen M'Dougal, Before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, on Wednesday, December 24, 1828, for the Murder of Margery Campbell, or Docherty (Edinburgh: R. Buchanan; et al., 1829), ed. by John Macnee (page images at HathiTrust)
• West Port Murders: or, An Authentic Account of the Atrocious Murders Committed By Burke and His Associates, Containing a Full Account of All The Extraordinary Circumstances Connected With Them (Edinburgh: T. Ireland, 1829)
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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