theft theme

The taking of another (legal) person's (property or services or scrap money without that person's permission or consent with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it, is featured.

Notes

The legal person who is deprived may be for example an individual, a company, or a state.

149 total · 5 choice · 51 major · 93 minor

StoryLevelMotivation
ahp4x20 choice The story concerns the theft of a diamond necklace.
ahp5x19 choice Milton embezzled $200,000 from his place of work as part of an elaborate plot to ensure he'd spend his golden years traveling the world in luxury.
ahp7x23 choice Miles stole a large sum of cash form the company safe one day after he retied.
ahp7x34 choice The story centers on a convoluted plot by which Herbert made off with $565,000 in paper bonds.
columbo1971e2x02 choice Orchid enthusiast Jarvis Goodland together with his nephew staged a kidnapping in order to gain access to said nephew's lavish trust fund. But Jarvis double crossed and murdered his nephew, making it look like the kidnapping had been botched, to in order to purloin the whole of the booty for himself.
ahh1x06 major A young nun lost a priceless statue to a thief at the railway station.
ahh1x25 major Robbie was accused of having embezzled $200k, but it was in fact Ralph that had done it.
ahh2x21 major Dorothy, later revealed as the Dorothy persona in Helen, held a grudge against Helen for allegedly stealing $343 from Helen's own father's wallet and then pinning it on Dorthy.
ahh2x23 major The story revolves partly around a gang of car thieves. In this story they stole the same Rolls-Royce twice and found the same murdered woman in the trunk both times.
ahh2x26 major The big reveal of the story is that the struggling painter James' disgruntlement toward the municipal authorities was a diversion from the true purpose of him and his accomplices: replace five museum paintings with his forgeries and make off the the originals without anybody being the wiser.