Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling
by Block, Lawrence
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good in Fair dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0394504178
- ISBN 13
- 9780394504179
- Seller
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Odessa, Texas, United States
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Synopsis
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.
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- Seller
- Ye Old Bookworm (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- W3138
- Title
- Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling
- Author
- Block, Lawrence
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394504178
- ISBN 13
- 9780394504179
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- Mystery
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- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....