You should also check out Donald Westlake. He had a couple of great series about thieves.
The
Parker novels are brilliant heist books. They're short, sharp, hard-boiled, and tightly-plotted. Westlake wrote them under the pseudonym Richard Stark, and they're sometimes shelved under that name.
John Dortmunder is sort of the anti-Parker. The Dortmunder books are longer, loosely-plotted, and very funny.