title: Robbers!: True Stories of the World's Most Notorious Thieves (It Actually Happened)
author:  Andreas Schroeder 
description: Schroeders background as a crime writer shows in the smooth flow of these eight tales of notorious robberies. He walks a fine line between clearly reporting the details of the crime and making sure the interest level remains high enough to keep his readers engaged. Schroeder gives a resolution to each of his stories, even those that seem more open-ended, such as the D. B. Cooper hijacking. Simards illustrations are very clear, with an angled, cartoonish feel that makes them appropriate for the intended audience but not so young looking as to turn off middle-school readers. Rather than just showing the action, the illustrations tell part of the story, making the book a hybrid of comics and prose. Some of the illustrations are oddly placed and impede the narrative flow, but this is a minor complaint for an otherwise enjoyable book. Grades 4-8. --Snow Wildsmith
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  The Evening Post
  
  Monday, 13 February 1939
  
  STARTLING SCENE AT JERSEY HOTEL
  
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  POLICE SWOOP AT LUNCH HOUR
  
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  Two Guests Handcuffed  
  Thief Gets Away through Window  
  Alleged Dangerous Gang of Safe Breakers
  
  > A letter sent to a girl in Bournemouth led yesterday to the arrest of two
  > members of a gelignite gang wanted for the 'blowing' of a safe at a
  > cooperative store and the theft of £470. A third man got wind of the
  > impending police swoop on the Hotel de la Plage, Havre-Ie-Pas, and escaped.
  
  > Residents at La Plage Hotel were at lunch when Centenier C. G. Grant of St
  > Helier, and six members of the paid police in civilian clothing entered and,
  > before most of the lunchers knew what had happened, two men had been
  > handcuffed and chase was being given to the third man, alleged to be the
  > leader of the gang. One of th