To Catch a Thief (novel) the jewels have been returned and "Burns" was his company's agent. With the jewels restored and the gypsy dead, the case is closed. Robie can now return safely to Vence, where he has everything he wants – except, he now realizes, Francie Stevens. He finds her packing to leave for America... In 1955, the novel was made into a film by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. Episode 10 of Season 10 of the TV series "Bones" (December 11, 2014), "The 200 in the 10th", is a free adaptation of the novel, with the show characters appearing as
To Catch a Thief (novel) To Catch a Thief (novel) To Catch a Thief is a 1952 thriller novel by David F. Dodge. The scene is the French Riviera, and the time is 1951. In August 1951, French police come to arrest American John Robie at his villa in Vence near the Côte d'Azur. He escapes, leaping over the garden wall. In the late 1930s, Robie was a daring, supremely athletic burglar, known as "Le Chat" ("the cat"), who specialized in jewel thefts from hotels and villas on the French Riviera. He was caught and sent to prison in 1939. But during the German occupation