| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 239 pages) |
| Contents |
Prologue: Open Cases Now Closed -- The Parker House Heist -- Schools for Thought -- Massachusetts Tightens Its Pockets -- The Team Forms -- A Key for Your Thoughts -- Expensive Cup of Java -- Holiday Weekend Activity -- The Checks Cancel Out -- Kansas City, Here We Come -- Breakdowns -- Cresta Tries It Alone -- The No-Headlined Theft -- The Highwaymen, One Last Time -- Machine Guns at the VA -- Life Is What Happens When You're Busy Making Other Plans -- Suspended Sentences for a Fee -- Brink's Deja-vu -- On the Run -- Surrounded -- Settling Scores -- Aftermath: The Main Characters -- Aftermath: Other Characters |
| Summary |
Just before he died in Chicago, legendary thief Cresta revealed to Crowley, a retired Boston police detective, how he planned and carried out the capers that had baffled both the police and his colleagues for decades |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 06, 2022) |
| Subject |
Cresta, Phil.
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| SUBJECT |
Cresta, Phil fast |
| Subject |
Thieves -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography
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Burglary -- Massachusetts -- Boston
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Organized crime -- Massachusetts -- Boston
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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TRUE CRIME -- General.
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Burglary
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Organized crime
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Thieves
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Massachusetts -- Boston
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| Genre/Form |
collective biographies.
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Crowley, Bill, author.
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| ISBN |
9781611683790 |
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1611683793 |
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