18 books like Confessions of a master jewel thief

What to read after Confessions of a master jewel thief — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The Light of Day Eric Ambler · 1962 · ★ 3.4 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Arthur Simpson is a petty thief who is discovered stealing from a hotel room. His victim, however, turns out to be a criminal in a league well above his own and Simpson is blackmailed into smuggling arms into Turkey for use in a major jewel robbery. The Turkish police, however, discover the arms and he is further 'blackmailed' by them into spying on the 'gang' - or rot in a Turkish jail. However,… Shares: Jewel thieves, Criminals

A Talent to Deceive William Norris · 2006 · 327p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh's infant son, and the subsequent trial and execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, have been a source of fascination for more than 70 years. Now, for the first time, William Norris delves into sources of information ignored by previous investigators and comes up with the identity of the true culprit. Lindbergh is exposed as having obstructed the… Shares: True Crime, Crime, Biography & Memoir

Blonde Ambition Rita Cosby · 2007 · ★ 3.8 · 296p · ≈ 9h · Moderate YOU PROBABLY THINK YOU KNOW ALL THERE IS TO KNOW. ANNA NICOLE SMITH LOST HER SON. SHE ACCIDENTALLY OVERDOSED. SHE WAS A DRUG ADDICT. YOU DON'T KNOW A THING...She was famous for being famous-Americana at its Scarlet Letter-wearing best. A bodacious young girl from Texas , Anna remade herself into the centerfold of the world. She was a "dumb blonde," a stripper, a Playboy Playmate, who boldly… Shares: Celebrities, True Crime, Biography & Memoir

Honest Illusions Nora Roberts · 1992 · ★ 4.1 · 505p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Kurzbeschreibung Die Tochter des Magiers (Honest Illusions) - Nora Roberts Die rothaarige und temperamentvolle Roxy Nouvelle ist Tochter eines legendären Zauberkünstlers. Von ihm hat sie nicht nur die außergewöhnliche Begabung für Magie geerbt, sondern auch die Kunst, manche Reichen um ihre Juwelen zu erleichtern. Auch Luke Callahan, der als weggelaufener Junge bei den Nouvelles Aufnahme fand,… Shares: Jewel thieves, Thieves

Seven Bones Peter Seymour · 2011 · 284p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Seven Bones is the story of one of the more bizarre murder investigations in Australia’s criminal history. Two wives die in suspicious circumstances: co-incidence or, as husband Thomas Keir describes it, ‘bad luck’?Arriving on the scene, Detective Peter Seymour realised he was dealing with the world’s unluckiest husband or a serial wife killer. Keir’s ‘grieving husband’ act was suddenly in… Shares: True Crime, Crime

The Sentence Is Death Anthony Horowitz · 2018 · ★ 4.0 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate You shouldnt be here. Its too late... These, heard over the phone, were the last recorded words of successful celebrity-divorce lawyer Richard Pryce, found bludgeoned to death in his bachelor pad with a bottle of winea 1982 Chateau Lafite worth £3,000, to be precise. Odd, considering he didnt drink. Why this bottle? And why those words? And why was a three-digit number painted on the wall by the… Shares: Celebrities, Crimes against, Crime

A Line to Kill Anthony Horowitz · 2021 · ★ 4.0 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate The New York Times bestselling author of the brilliantly inventive The Word Is Murder and The Sentence Is Death returns with his third literary whodunit featuring intrepid detectives Hawthorne and Horowitz."Horowitz is a master of misdirection, and his brilliant self-portrayal, wittily self-deprecating, carries the reader through a jolly satire on the publishing world." —BooklistWhen Ex-Detective… Shares: Celebrities, Crime

The private diary of Lyle Menendez Lyle Menendez · 1993 · ★ 4.6 · 263p · ≈ 8h · Moderate The personal story of Lyle Menendez is based on a four-and-a-half-year intimate correspondence with the author and covers the murders of Jose and Kitty Menendez by Lyle and his brother Erik and the court trials that ended in hung juries. Shares: Criminals, True Crime, Biography & Memoir

Rothstein David Pietrusza · 2003 · ★ 3.6 · 464p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Rothstein is a Germanic-language (German, Yiddish) surname of several possible origins: toponymic surname from a place with the same name near Merseburg; from a Germanic personal name, Hrodstein (hrod- (Hróð-), "fame", "glory",Oscar Kuhns, "Studies in Pennsylvania German Family Names", in: Americana Germanica Quarterly, vol.4, 1902, https://books.google.com/books?id=VAELAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA306 p.306]… Shares: Criminals, True Crime, Crime, Biography & Memoir

The Authentic Life of Billy, The Kid Pat Garrett · 2008 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Hankering for a mostly true tale about the hard-living desperadoes who inhabited America's desert Southwest in the mid-1800s? This biography of the ill-fated gunslinger Billy, the Kid was written by Pat Garrett, the sheriff who shot Billy down. Although some historians now question the veracity of some of the self-aggrandizing bluster Garrett and his ghostwriter included in the book, The… Shares: True Crime, Biography & Memoir

Last Yakuza Jake Adelstein · 2017 · ★ 4.4 · 408p · ≈ 13h · Moderate The Last Yakuza tells the history of the yakuza like it’s never been told before.Makoto Saigo is half-American and half-Japanese in small-town Japan with a set of talents limited to playing guitar and picking fights. With rock stardom off the table, he turns toward the only place where you can start from the bottom and move up through sheer merit, loyalty, and brute force — the yakuza.Saigo,… Shares: True Crime, Biography & Memoir

You Can't Win Jack Black · 1926 · ★ 4.2 · 412p · ≈ 13h · Challenging William Burroughs, at the age of 13, was inspired by this book, as he mentions in a preface to Naked Lunch. You Can't Win is a memoir that explodes our ideas about the supposedly lawful past; Jack was a drifter, robber, junkie, and hustler that survived from the frontier times til the depression era...apparently. He became a librarian of sorts, wrote his memoir, and then vanished... Shares: Thieves, Criminals, Biography & Memoir

The Amateur Cracksman E. W. Hornung · 1899 · ★ 3.6 · 234p · ≈ 7h · Challenging First published in 1899, The Amateur Cracksman was the first collection of stories detailing the exploits and intrigues of gentleman thief A. J. Raffles in late Victorian England. Raffles was E. W. Hornung's most famous character. Popular in its day, the book led to three later works: The Black Mask and A Thief in the Night, both collections of short stories, and Mr. Justice Raffles, a complete… Shares: Jewel thieves, Criminals

Cass Cass Pennant · 2001 · 340p · ≈ 11h · Moderate He arrived to rally the troops, the main man in the Inter City Firm and his greeting passed into football fan history. 'Afternoon, gentlemen, the name's Bill Gardner.' That introduction alone was often enough to provoke sheer terror in his opponents. He is a genuine legend to anyone who's ever stood proud on a football terrace. No serious book on the culture would be complete without at least one… Shares: Criminals, True Crime, Crime, Biography & Memoir

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil John Berendt · 1994 · ★ 4.4 · 388p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Read John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in Large Print. All Random House Large Print editions are published in a 16-point typefaceShots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung… Shares: Celebrities, True Crime

The Best American Crime Writing 2005 Thomas H. Cook · 2005 · ★ 3.9 · 367p · ≈ 12h · Moderate The 2005 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers the year's most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, including Peter Landesman's article about female sex slaves (the most requested and widely read New York Times story of 2004), a piece from The New Yorker by Stephen J. Dubner (the coauthor of Freakanomics) about a high-society silver thief, and an… Shares: Criminals, True Crime, Crime

The Best American Crime Reporting 2008 Thomas H. Cook · 2008 · ★ 3.5 · 329p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Thieves, liars, killers, and conspirators—it's a criminal world out there, and someone has got to write about it. An eclectic collection of the year's best reportage, The Best American Crime Reporting 2008 brings together the murderers and the masterminds, the mysteries and missteps that make for brilliant stories, told by the aces of the true-crime genre. This latest addition to the highly… Shares: Criminals, True Crime, Crime

Mafia son Sandra Harmon · 2009 · ★ 4.0 · 301p · ≈ 10h · Moderate In this dark, jagged true crime thriller, wily mob head Gregory Scarpa Sr. (alias the "Grim Reaper") secretly steals and kills under FBI protection for decades. When faced with arrest for his own crimes, he betrays his adoring son, Gregory Jr., whom he'd groomed to take his place. Taking the fall for his father out of familial respect and love, the young Scarpa endures decades of maximum security… Shares: Criminals, True Crime, Crime, Biography & Memoir

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