Ghost Burglar

Bernard C. Welch was called the most prolific burglar of modern times. He eluded police up and down the East Coast for years and was finally caught only because he shot prominent heart surgeon, Dr. David Halberstam, who then hit Welch with his car as Welch fled the scene. Halberstam died and Welch was sentenced to 143 years plus life. Sent to an "escape-proof" prison in Illinois, Welch managed to trick federal officials to sending him to a facility on the Chicago River on the promise of becoming a snitch. There, he broke out with the help of an enforcer from the Aryan Nation he had hired. This book is the whole story of a Rochester, N.Y. plumber who turned thievery into a business, even to the point of keeping books and filing taxes with the IRS for a "legitimate" antiques and silver trading business.

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The city seen from a unique point of view: those who want to break in and loot its treasures

Trained to be a cat burglar in an orphanage, teenager K. Westree discovers her late father belonged to a secret organization of thieves, and becomes entangled in their plot to uncover a pirate's fortune.

For her college course on novel writing, Melanie is writing a ghost story about a young widow haunted by supernatural forces. But her thoughts are occupied by her attraction to her professor. Soon, the eerie events in her novel are mirrored in her own life, when strange things happen in the house where she is living for the school year. Disembodied footsteps and the intense feeling that she is being watched are only the beginning.

Michael and Cecilia slowly--and almost by accident--discover the reasons for Bertil's odd behavior, the meaning behind the ghostly apparition, and eventually the hiding place of the stolen money.

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Amos Tutuola's second novel, was first published in 1954. It tells the tale of a small boy who wanders into the heart of a fantastical African forest, the dwelling place of innumerable wild, grotesque and terrifying beings. He is captured by ghosts, buried alive and wrapped up in spider webs, but after several years he marries and accepts his new existence. With the appearance of the television-handed ghostess, however, comes a possible route of escape.'Tutuola ... has the immediate intuition of a creative artist working by spell and incantation.' V. S. Pritchett, New Statesman

No one has seen him, no one know how he looks like. THE GHOST THIEF -- this used to be the codename of MAX KELLER when he worked to the Agency. He steals. Steals whatever he is asked for. Now he's only MAX, left the Agency and tries to live an ordinary life with his wife. However, there's a lesson he has to learn: one cannot escape from the responsibilities that fate lays on him. Murderous gangs are after an ancient mysterious artifact which is said to be the key to eternal life... Will THE GHOST THIEF be able to solve the oddest case of his life..?More than 70 pages long thrilling adventurous existential-noir in a penetrant 'pop art'-style with a handful of humour!

Someone stole the key to the Black Cat Bookstore! Lucky for the store's owner, Mr. Brown, his clever cat, Cobweb, is on the case. Cobweb has a plan to scare the burglar away, and the ghost who lives in the bookstore is happy to help. There's only one problem-the burglar doesn't believe in ghosts. But maybe he'll change his mind once he meets the special ghost who lives in the Black Cat Bookstore.