Worlds dumbest crooks : and other true tales of bloopers, botches and blunders
Title:
Worlds dumbest crooks : and other true tales of bloopers, botches and blunders
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Summary:
Over one hundred true accounts of criminals' self-defeating behaviors, including those of a fleeing gunman who got stuck in freshly poured cement and a carjacker who led police on a high-speed chase into the parking lot of a state prison.
Year Published:
2009
Physical Description:
127 p. ; 20 cm.
Note:
"This edition is available for distribution only through the school market"--Cover verso.
Contents:
Criminal hall of shame -- Robbers -- Burglars and intruders -- Car thieves and carjackers -- Bank robbers -- Thieves -- Counterfeiters and forgers -- Other dumb criminals.
Reading Grade level:
6.5.
Grade Interest level:
5-9.
ISBN:
9780439643573
9780545116640
Publisher:
New York : Scholastic, c2009.
