In English legal history, a thief-taker was a private individual hired to capture criminals. The widespread establishment of professional police in England...

Wild, also spelled Wilde (1682 or 1683 – 24 May 1725), was an English thief-taker and a major figure in London's criminal underworld, notable for operating...

(Pilot) Thief-taker "Thief Takers". Tv.com. Archived from the original on 27 May 2017. Retrieved 26 April 2017. "ITV Studios - Thief Takers". Archived...

as Charles Hitchin in other sources, (c. 1675 – 1727) was an English thief-taker and under-marshal of the City of London in the early 18th century, also...

victims of the Gloom. Garrett evades Northcrest's right-hand man, the Thief-Taker General, and retrieves the ring. There, he meets a man called Orion,...

"It Takes a Thief" may refer to: The Challenge (1960 film), a British crime film It Takes a Thief (film), a 1999 Hong Kong film featuring Yukari Oshima...

It Takes a Thief is the debut studio album by American rapper Coolio. It was released on July 19, 1994, on Warner Bros. Records. The album received praise...

overincentivizing. This led to the development of the profession of thief-taker. They were part of the criminal underworld, but they were seen as offering...

as "pretended Thiefe-taker" in a 1707 document, used their social power as thief-takers as an advantage for receiving. Thief-takers were usually so involved...

"Grey Fox" for his shrewdness. He was Scotland Yard's most formidable thief-taker and, as an unmarried man who still lived with his mother, he had a fanatical...

Thief is a series of stealth video games in which the player takes the role of Garrett, a master thief in a fantasy steampunk world resembling a cross...

of becoming England's greatest highwayman while being pursued by the thief-taker Jonathan Wilde and the secretive criminal organisation, The Syndicate...

Set in a fantasy metropolis called the City, players take on the role of Garrett, a master thief trained by a secret society who, while carrying out a...

him to the self-styled "Thief-Taker General" (and thief) Jonathan Wild around 1714. He left school and became a professional thief. By the age of 17, he...

criminal working with his partner Rob. When Rob is killed by sadistic Thief Taker General Chance after a botched heist outside debtor's prison, Plunkett...

It Takes a Thief is an American action-adventure television series that aired on ABC for three seasons between 1968 and 1970. It stars Robert Wagner in...

final time. Historical analyst Gerald Howson argues in his 1985 book, Thief-Taker General: Jonathan Wild and the Emergence of Crime and Corruption As a...

Kingdom Metropolitan Police Old Bailey Police officer Private police Thief-taker Newman 1997, p. 69. Cox 2010. Hichcock & Shoemaker 2006, p. 1. Beattie...

criminal career after less than two years. The inability of the notorious "Thief-Taker General" Jonathan Wild to control Sheppard, and injuries suffered by...

A gentleman thief, gentleman burglar, lady thief, or phantom thief is a stock character in fiction. A gentleman or lady thief is characterised by impeccable...

agent of such surety, engage in the business of taking or attempting to take into custody the principal on the bond who has failed to appear in court...

Take a Thief: A Novel of Valdemar is a 2001 young-adult novel by American writer Mercedes Lackey. It is the third in the Heralds of Valdemar series, and...

Thief is a historical fiction novel by the Australian author Markus Zusak, set in Nazi Germany during World War II. Published in 2005, The Book Thief...

Summerhayes, Linda (6 August 2008). "Investigating the appeal of Capital's thief taker". Edinburgh Evening News. Archived from the original on 16 June 2011...

It Takes a Thief is an American reality television series that originally aired on the Discovery Channel from February 2, 2005, to April 13, 2007. The...

the fictional Benjamin Weaver, a retired bare-knuckle boxer, now a "thief-taker" (a cross between a modern private investigator and bounty hunter). Weaver's...

Hitchin) member of the Society for the Reformation of Manners, notable thief-taker, former Under City Marshal in London, was described as a regular in molly-houses...

suggested that the term was inspired by the practice of 18th-century British thief taker and criminal Jonathan Wild, who kept a ledger of his transactions and...

found in London in 1721, reputedly informed upon by the self-appointed Thief-taker General, Jonathan Wild,[1] the elder Dalton was hanged. His mother remarried...

career in bare-knuckle boxing, Weaver has found a new calling as a 'thief-taker'—roughly equivalent to a modern private investigator. Believing that...