New York: Dutton/Penguin, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The ninth book in Edgar and Shamus Award-winner Block's bibliomystery series featuring New York bookseller-burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, this time trying to return a legendary author's private correspondence when murder intervenes. Inscribed and dated on the title page by Block. Text and boards are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

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Gulliver Fairborn's novel, Nobody's Baby, changed Bernie Rhodenbarr's life. And now pretty Alice Cottrell, Fairborn's one-time paramour, wants the bookselling, book-loving burglar to break into a room in New York's teeth-achingly charming Paddington Hotel and purloin some of the writer's very personal letters before an unscrupulous agent can sell them. Here's an opportunity to use his unique talents in the service of the revered, famously reclusive author. But when Bernie gets there, the agent is dead . . . and Bernie's wanted for murder. (He really hates when that happens!)Perhaps it's karmic payback; Bernie did help himself to a ruby necklace on his way out. (But it was lying there. And he is a burglar.) Now he's in even hotter water. And he'll need to use every trick in the book—maybe going so far as to entice the hermitic Fairborn himself out of seclusion—to bring this increasingly twisted plot to a satisfying denouement.

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Bookseller: H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 002817
Title: THE BURGLAR IN THE RYE
Author: Block, Lawrence
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
ISBN 10: 0525945008
ISBN 13: 9780525945000
Publisher: Dutton/Penguin
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1999
Keywords: MYSTERY, FIRST EDITION, BIBLIOMYSTERY, SIGNED, HUMOR, NEW YORK,
Bookseller catalogs: Mystery; New York; Bibliomystery;

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