The Burglar Who Liked To Quote Kipling
by Block, Lawrence
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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New York: Dutton. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1996. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0525941592 . A handsome first edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in Fine dust-jacket; In this hilarious and whimsical novel, a burglar named Frank who likes to quote Kipling learns the error of his ways when he falls in love with a wealthy… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Random House, 1979. Warmly SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end page - " For Ken - A far more welcome visitor than Bernie R - Merry Christmas ! Larry". First Printing, with complete Random House number row 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2. Near Fine, tiny corner bump, in a Very Good Plus dust… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling: A Bernie Rhodenbarr Mystery
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The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling: 8A Bernie Rhodenbarr Mystery
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THE BURGLAR WHO LIKED TO QUOTE KIPLING
by BLOCK LAWRENCE
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The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling: A Bernie Rhodenbarr Mystery
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The Burglar Who Liked To Quote Kipling
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The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling: 8A Bernie Rhodenbarr Mystery
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The Burglar who Liked to Quote Kipling
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The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling
by Lawrence Block
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