The Thief’s Apprentice Bryan Methods C A ROL R HODA BOOK S M I N N E A P OL I S
For a Moon Bunny a Dough Girl and a Fish thank you for all the smiles And for Mum and Dad there can be no better guides to living life well
I The Silent Battle the precise moment The remember moment I learned a secret that had eluded the finest detectives of Scotland Yard a secret the newspapers kept demanding to know yet nobody could tell them For months a master thief had left the curators of museums up and down the country waking in cold sweats Not a soul in England knew his identity they said and until that fateful moment they were prob ably right But no longer They called him the Ruminating Claw this vir tuoso of burglary The razor-sharp talons he wore on one hand swiped away masterpiece after masterpiece but all were returned mere days later That made him a true criminal according to the papers he stole for the thrill of it rather than to hoard his treasures or to 1
