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Along the way they climb a beanstalk that looks like a sky-scraping strand of DNA, encounter a baby goose noticeably smaller than the golden eggs it lays, a mother goose with the dimensions and disposition of King Kong, and Kitty Softpaws, a sexy cat burglar—that is to say, a cat who burgles, preferably by picking pockets— played by Salma Hayek.

'Like Crazy': From Cupid's Blunders, Wonders Joe Morgenstern 2011

In Shanghai, a peasant laborer burgles a house and strangles the owner's daughter.

Crime: 'You Die, I Live' 2008

So now ... burgles for political gain equals terrorism?

"That One" is doing fine, thank you Steven Barnes 2008

So now ... burgles for political gain equals terrorism?

"That One" is doing fine, thank you Steven Barnes 2008

From Dayton, Ohio, a man who uses a wheelchair burgles a restaurant four times in one week.

Archive 2008-12-01 Kay Olson 2008

From Dayton, Ohio, a man who uses a wheelchair burgles a restaurant four times in one week.

When the wheels make the man, part 5 Kay Olson 2008

It's a film about a guy who burgles a woman's house and inadvertantly reads her diary.

Meeting the 7/7 Challenge 2006

Another was “hot prowl” — for a prowler who burgles a home while residents are there, but tries to evade detection.

Nightmare on Sunset Shnayerson, Michael 2005

Another was “hot prowl” — for a prowler who burgles a home while residents are there, but tries to evade detection.

Nightmare on Sunset Shnayerson, Michael 2005

Is it the story of the villain who is successfully tracked to his doom that attracts us most? or that of the great Raffles and his kind whose villainies almost invariably escape detection, and who burgles with a light and easy touch and the grace and humour of a Claude

Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang