It Takes a Thief (1968 TV series) motion picture "To Catch a Thief", directed by Alfred Hitchcock; both of their titles stem from the English proverb "Set a thief to catch a thief". (Or as is more widely used, "It takes a thief to catch a thief".) "It Takes a Thief," which was created by television writer Roland Kibbee, featured the adventures of cat burglar, pickpocket, and thief Alexander Mundy, who steals to finance his life as a polished playboy and sophisticate. He is in prison when the U.S. government's SIA (the fictional Secret Intelligence Agency) proposes a deal to Mundy: steal for the government in exchange
A Trap to Catch a Cracksman A Trap to Catch a Cracksman "A Trap to Catch a Cracksman" is a short story by E. W. Hornung, and features the gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, and his companion and biographer, Bunny Manders. The story was published in July 1905 by "Pall Mall Magazine" in London. The story was also included as the seventh story in the collection "A Thief in the Night", published by Chatto & Windus in London, and Charles Scribner's Sons in New York, both in 1905. Very early morning, Bunny receives a vague and distressing telephone call from Raffles, telling Bunny that he has