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• Offenses against property

• Theft -- Fiction
• Theft -- Juvenile fiction
• Theft -- Juvenile literature
• Theft -- Wyoming
• Body snatching
• Book thefts
• Burglary
• Cattle stealing
• Firearms theft
• Grave robbing
• Horse stealing
• Identity theft
• Jewelry theft
• Pet theft
• Robbery

• Snatching
• Stealing

• 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 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)
• The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains, by Owen Wister (Gutenberg text)
• The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains (London and New York: Macmillan, 1902), by Owen Wister, illust. by Arthur Ignatius Keller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains (New York and London: Macmillan, 1902), by Owen Wister, illust. by Arthur Ignatius Keller (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains (special edition in paper covers; New York and London: Macmillan, 1904), by Owen Wister, illust. by Arthur Ignatius Keller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains (theatrical edition; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1904), by Owen Wister, illust. by Arthur Ignatius Keller
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains (edited for high school use; New York: Macmillan, c1917), by Owen Wister, ed. by James Fleming Hosic (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains (new edition; New York: Macmillan, 1922), by Owen Wister, illust. by Charles M. Russell and Frederic Remington (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 (Guteberg text)

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

• 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

• 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
• 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 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)

• 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

• Bookhunter (c2007), by Jason Shiga (page images at shigabooks.com)

• Home Security Handbook, by Crime and Violence Prevention Center (Calif.) (PDF at UCSC)

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