The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling Mass market paperbound - 2005

Bookseller and thief Bernie Rhodenbarr can’t resist the lure of a long lost Kipling poem, even if it is locked inside a millionaire’s high security library. So Bernie goes browsing and sure enough he liberates the object in question . . . but also finds a dead redhead and is caught with the proverbial smoking gun by those boys in blue, who are ready to book Bernie for Murder One!Bernie Rhodenbarr has gone legit -- almost -- as the new owner of a used bookstore in New York's Greenwich Village. Of course, dusty old tomes don't always turn a profit, so to make ends meet, Bernie's forced, on occasion, to indulge in his previous occupation: burglary. Besides which, he likes it.Now a collector is offering Bernie an opportunity to combine his twin passions by stealing a very rare and very bad book-length poem from a rich man's library.The heist goes off without a hitch. The delivery of the ill-gotten volume, however, is a different story. Drugged by the client's female go-between, Bernie wakes up in her apartment to find the book gone, the lady dead, a smoking gun in his hand, and the cops at the door. And suddenly he's got to extricate himself from a rather sticky real-life murder mystery and find a killer -- before he's booked for Murder One.

Details

• Title The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling
• Author Lawrence Block
• Binding Mass Market Paperbound
• Edition Reprint
• Pages 286
• Volumes 1
• Language ENG
• Publisher HarperTorch, Scarborough, ON, Canada
• Date March 1, 2005
• ISBN 9780060731250 / 0060731257
• Weight 0.33 lbs (0.15 kg)
• Dimensions 6.82 x 4.22 x 0.81 in (17.32 x 10.72 x 2.06 cm)
• Themes
  • Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
  • Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
  • Geographic Orientation: New York
  • Locality: New York, N.Y.
• Dewey Decimal Code FIC