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The Burglar in the Rye (Bernie Rhodenbarr Mysteries)

by Lawrence Block

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Publisher Comments:

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.

Synopsis:

Now in paperback — the newest and most successful Rhodenbarr novel from the Edgar Award winning master of mystery, Lawrence Block...

Bookseller-by-day, burglar-by-night, Bernie Rhodenbarr is back on the dead-end trail of reclusive literary legend...

About the Author

One of the most widely recognized names in the mystery/suspense genre, Lawrence Block is a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master, a four-time winner of the Edgar and Shamus awards, and a recipient of prizes in France, Germany, England, and Japan.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780060872892
Author:
Block, Lawrence
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Author:
by Lawrence Block
Subject:
Mystery & Detective - General
Subject:
Thieves
Subject:
New york (n.y.)
Subject:
Mystery fiction
Edition Description:
Paperback
Series:
Bernie Rhodenbarr Mysteries
Publication Date:
August 2007
Binding:
Mass Market Paperbound
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
321
Dimensions:
6.82x4.16x.98 in. .36 lbs.

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