The Prosperous Thief

First edition
Author	Andrea Goldsmith
Language	English
Publisher	Allen & Unwin, Australia
Publication date	2002
Publication place	Australia
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	291
ISBN	1865087564
Preceded by	Under the Knife
Followed by	Reunion

The Prosperous Thief is a 2002 novel by Australian novelist Andrea Goldsmith.

Alice Lewin has survived the Second World War and, as an adult, visits the Kindertransport archive where she learns of a possible relative. She travels to Australia in an attempt to meet Henry Lewin, but it is a meeting with unforeseen consequences.

• Dedication: for Dot
• Epigraph: 'Virtue and crime weigh the same, I've seen it: in a man who was both criminal and virtuous.' - Tadeusz Rozewicz
• Epigraph: 'We all live in a phantom dwelling.' - Basho

• The Compulsive Reader^[1]

• 2003 shortlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award