Entries in a notebook carried by 37-year-old Iowa burglar Michael Sutton, arrested in the 1950s: Clothes express and accentuate a person’s personality and station in life. Wear good clothes in order to be inconspicuous. Live in best hotels, so I won’t be noticed going and coming at odd hours. Always carry the daily paper when on the prowl early in the evening — or a magazine. It looks like a person coming home from the office. Better still, carry a briefcase. It takes an amazing amount of cunning to master crime. Use bulb in toilet bowl to hide diamonds in...