Gentleman Burglar

“The trick? Oh no honey, there’s no trick - you just weren’t paying attention…”

The city PD were overwhelmed by the cascade of cases piling up over the past couple months. There was always a new store that got hit up, a new citizen who checked their pockets and found it bare of belongings, which then led to a new stack of forms getting dumped on a poor sod in the police office.

Alex Lewis strides past the multiple police cars gathered outside the bank, the small bag of crystal diamonds snuggled against his chest in the inside pocket of his waistcoat. Thankfully, he even had time to grab a glass for a drink, sipping it gracefully whilst greeting one of the officers patiently waiting inside as their colleagues went to find the burglar they got so long have been searching for.

To many, he was just a man in a suit. Handsome, charming, a hypnotist who would convince you about anything with his words. But his aliases were many, his faces changed and manipulated, but his qualities stuck with all of his characters which he used to take what he wanted.

Your wallet? Disappeared. Your watch? He’s wearing it. Your phone? He’s probably already sold it to the old man who lives across you…

And he never gets caught. How could you accuse a man with such elegance and class of robbery?