Larcin Penguin

Larcin Penguin is the title of the family notebook maintained by the family of Slick Conry. It describes the entire modus operandi of the family's criminal methods and explains in detail how to commit various crimes of all sorts, and, more importantly, how to evade capture. It contains over ninety years of personal notes, maps, pictures, and documents, and every Conry family member is encouraged to log their successes and methods and stick them between the book's original pages.

Larcin means, "Thieving" in French.

Overview
The book is kept and updated for the purpose of being passed to the next Conry family member(s), so that another generation of career criminals can be brought up in the most efficient manner possible. It is read ritualistically by the family and shared with each generation. Although the entire family shares ownership of the log, the eldest son of the newest generation is traditionally designated as its official "keeper". Slick Conry is the current keeper, in this manner.

The book
In all actuality, it is simply a bound cover and some old, yellowed pages. The book's actual pages were long filled in by ancestral Conry members. New Conry members add on to the book by writing notes on scraps of paper, or inserting portraits into the book and taping them thre. This has given the Larcin Penguin the appearence of a scrapbook, but despite its sloppy appearence, it is nonetheless the ultimate how-to guide to crime.

As the prized possession and heirloom of the Conry family, they take its protection as the utmost priority. When not being read, it is locked away in a privately owned, bank-quality security vault, dubbed the "Conry Vault".

Theft of the book
The trove of secrets, tutorials, and instructions in the Larcin Penguin has made the book a prime target for most every criminal and established organized crime network in Antarctica, and it is needless to say that they have all made some sort of attempt to swipe it and gain access to its secrets.

Over the years, a few groups have succeeded in taking portions of the book. Its sloppy nature and scrapbook-style method of archiving means that pictures, maps, documentations, and indeed, entire pages can be taken at once. Various baddies have taken pages and pieces of the book in the past, but only once was the entire book taken.

The Conry family will always drop what they are doing to retrieve their precious notebook, and for good reason. Everyone, good and bad, wants the Larcin Penguin. Law enforcement and secret agencies seek it to thwart criminals by using crime's top minds against it. Mafias want it for the juicy secrets of "forced disappearences" and "coercion tactics", and petty thieves know its tutorials for burglary are top-notch.

Any criminal with a brain knows that possession of the Larcin Penguin would make their ability to commit crimes rival only that of the book's authors, and that, of course, is the incentive anyone and everyone has to get it. No wonder, then, do the Conry family take such steps to gaurd it.

Below are successful attempts at stealing portions of the book on stealing, in chronological order of the theft. Each time, it was recovered.

Leakage
The general public only has one page to look at from the Larcin Penguin. Every criminal that performs the crime documented obviously uses it as their guide. That page details proper embezzlement tactics. Police also use it as a way to stop embezzlement.

However, the UPM possesses the equivalent of fourteen pages' worth of the Larcin Penguin, and the gang uses it extensively in their operations. This, along with (and mostly because of) the sheer awesomeness of Bugzy, make the UPM the most formidable organized crime groups in Antarctica.

Trivia

 * The Larcin Penguin is a parody of the "Book of Thieves"\"Thevius Raccoonus" from the beloved Sly Cooper series of video games.
 * In the real world, some criminals actually do record their tactics in a secret log book of sorts, much like this. For instance, Osama bin Laden kept a small but extremely detailed log on Al-Qaeda operatives and operations. No, really. The book was discovered by the forty heroic Navy SEALs that killed him.