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2) Wyatt
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Series
Language
English
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Description
WYATT'S BEEN AWAY. NOW HE'S BACK.The job's a classic jewel heist: quick, clean and simple. Except for one thing. Wyatt prefers to work alone, but this job belongs to Eddie Oberin and his very smart ex-wife Lydia. She has the inside information; Wyatt has the planning genius and meticulous preparation. What could possibly go wrong?Plenty. But when you cross Wyatt, you don't walk away.Taut plots, brilliant writing and relentless pace; plus an unforgettable...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Ben is bored beyond belief after he is made to stay at his grandma's house. She's the boringest grandma ever: all she wants to do is to play Scrabble, and eat cabbage soup. But there are two things Ben doesn't know about his grandma. 1) She was once an international jewel thief. 2) All her life, she has been plotting to steal the Crown Jewels, and now she needs Ben's help.
Series
Criterion collection volume 174
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Français
Description
Two bumbling burglars plan a robbery with a young woman they just met. Problems begin immediately when they both fall for the girl and the plan goes haywire. The jewel-heist plot is merely a jumping off point for Godard's fast-paced mix of fantasy and spoof of Hollywood crime films
6) Flashfire
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English
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Between Parker's 1961 debut and his return in the late 1990s, the world of crime changed considerably. Now fake IDs and credit cards had to be purchased from specialists; increasingly sophisticated policing made escape and evasion tougher; and, worst of all, money had gone digital-the days of cash-stuffed payroll trucks were long gone. But cash isn't everything, and now Parker's after a fortune in jewels. In Flashfire, Parker's in West Palm Beach,...
Publisher
universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005, c1975
Language
English
Description
Inspector Jacques Clouseau, the world's most inept detective, is back on the job, tracking down the stolen Pink Panther diamond. Believing that the Phantom, a retired jewel thief, is responsible, Clouseau relies on his special brand of sleuthing to help him solve the case.
8) Jade Island
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Series
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English
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Gem hunter Kyle Donovan joins forces with gemologist Lianne Blakely in an attempt to prove that the young woman is not responsible for the theft of the legendary treasures of the Jade Emperor's Tomb.
9) Caper
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Series
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Lawrence Sanders spins the tale of a mystery writer caught up in the perfect crime My name is Jannie Shean. I go by many other names (including, heaven help me, Brick Wall), all of them male, and all of them designed to entice the macho readers who read my hard-boiled thrillers. But after my last Big Caper novel, everything changed. My publisher decided I was out of touch and needed to get out in the real world to...
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English
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Description
A Gem of a Mystery Takes Center Stage Walk through Doors to the Past via a new series of historical stories of romance and adventure. Elise Malvern has a habit of letting people down. Her former boyfriend who hoped she’d be his bride. Her grandfather who hoped she’d take over the family’s auction company. But mostly she’s disappointed herself. What’s the point of pursuing her passion as a violinist, if she is too scared to audition for a...
Publisher
Dimension Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Quick-Stop potheads Jay and Silent Bob wreak vengeance on Hollywood, where Miramax is making a "Bluntman & Chronic" feature film inspired by the comic book version of the guys, but without their permission. En route from Jersey to Hollywood, the guys encounter sexy jewel thieves, a precocious orangutan, a dimwit wildlife marshal, and a nonstop parade of in-jokes and splendid celebrity cameos.
14) The pink panther
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A bumbling, disaster-prone inspector invades a Swiss ski resort and becomes obsessed with capturing a jewel thief hoping to lift the legendary 'Pink Panther' diamond.
15) Forty Thieves
Author
Language
English
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Description
Married sleuths cross paths with married assassins in this "priceless" mystery by the bestselling author of the Jane Whitefield series ( The New York Times ). Sid and Ronnie Abel are a first-rate husband-and-wife detective team, both ex-LAPD. Ed and Nicole Hoyt are married assassins-for-hire living in the San Fernando Valley. Except for deadly aim with a Glock 17, the couples have little in common -- until they're hired to do damage control on the...
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
From bed partners . . .
Two years ago, while on assignment for the Crown, darkly handsome Garrett Burke left Lady Ivy Wentworth sleeping naked in his bed as he went in search of the missing Martello diamonds. After apprehending the dastardly thief, he intended to spend the rest of his life in the arms of the auburn-haired beauty. But when the case came to a shocking and dangerous end, Garrett was certain he'd been betrayed . . .
To partners in crime
Ivy...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Evan Tanner can't sleep. Ever. Which gives him plenty of free time to get involved in lots of interesting endeavors in all sorts of exotic locales. Now Tanner's in Thailand with a partially baked plan and a butterfly net, hoping to snare a beautiful missing chanteuse who's metamorphosed into an international jewel thief. Tanner hopes everyone will buy his disguise as a rare butterfly researcher. And everyone does ... Except the guerilla band holding...
18) Sting
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
March and Jules are teenage twins, following in their father's footsteps as jewel thieves, but when their latest job goes wrong they end up with one jewel, a sapphire called the Morning Star, one of three cursed jewels--and the only way they can break the curse is to elude the FBI, Interpol, and a gang of international criminals, find the other two jewels, and reunite them.
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a neighbor's package is delivered to Arf's house, he can't help himself and opens it to find a metal detector, which he has to try out, but he hopes his neighbor will forgive him after Arf makes a surprising discovery.
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