Author: Lawrence Block
Year: 1979
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Popularity: 1.9
Genres/categories: Humor, Mystery, Award winners, Fiction, Crime
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9780671618315
9780671835828
9781581650945
0671618318
0671835823
1581650949 |
 Winner of the Nero award in 1979. 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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