The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling -- Lawrence Block, Mass Market Paperbound

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.

Author: Lawrence Block
Publisher: HarperTorch
Published: 03/01/2005
Pages: 286
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 6.82h x 4.22w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780060731250

Review Citation(s):
Ingram Paperback Advance 03/01/2005 pg. 30