The Burglar Who Liked To Quote Kipling

Author : Lawrence Block
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061828195

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The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling by Lawrence Block Pdf

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.

Author : Joyce Block,Lawrence Block
Publisher : New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 0671835823

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The Burglar who Liked to Quote Kipling by Joyce Block,Lawrence Block Pdf

Author : Oldcastle Books, Limited
Publisher : No Exit Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 184243196X

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The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling by Oldcastle Books, Limited Pdf

Author : Lawrence Block
Publisher : HarperTorch
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0060731257

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The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling by Lawrence Block Pdf

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.

Author : Lawrence Block
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061808524

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Burglars Can't Be Choosers by Lawrence Block Pdf

Bernie Rhodenbarr is a personable chap, a good neighbor, a passable poker player. His chosen profession, however, might not sit well with some. Bernie is a burglar, a good one, effortlessly lifting valuables from the not-so-well-protected abodes of well-to-do New Yorkers like a modern-day Robin Hood. (The poor, as Bernie would be the first to tell you, alas, have nothing worth stealing.) He's not perfect, however; he occasionally makes mistakes. Like accepting a paid assignment from a total stranger to retrieve a particular item from a rich man's apartment. Like still being there when the cops arrive. Like having a freshly slain corpse lying in the next room, and no proof that Bernie isn't the killer. Now he's really got his hands full, having to locate the true perpetrator while somehow eluding the police -- a dirty job indeed, but if Bernie doesn't do it, who will?

Author : 布洛克 (美)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 7513331685

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喜欢引用吉卜林的贼 by 布洛克 (美) Pdf

Author : Lawrence Block
Publisher : Subterranean Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1596069570

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The Burglar in Short Order by Lawrence Block Pdf

Author : Lawrence Block
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061840968

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The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams by Lawrence Block Pdf

Bernie Rhodenbarr is actually trying to earn an honest living. It's been an entire year since he's entered anyone's abode illegally to help himself to their valuables. But now an unscrupulous landlord's threat to increase Bernie's rent by 1,000% is driving the bookseller and reformed burglar back to a life of crime -- though, in all fairness, it's a very short trip. And when the cops wrongly accuse him of stealing a priceless collection of baseball cards, Bernie's stuck with a worthless alibi since he was busy burgling a different apartment at the time . . . one that happened to contain a dead body locked inside a bathroom. So Bernie has a dilemma. He can trade a burglary charge for a murder rap. Or he can shuffle all the cards himself and try to find the joker in the deck -- someone, perhaps, who believes that homicide is the real Great American Pastime.

Author : Lawrence Block
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409153580

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The Burglar Who Counted The Spoons by Lawrence Block Pdf

The long-awaited eleventh novel in the Bernie Rhodenbarr series. Everybody's favourite burglar returns in an eleventh adventure that finds him and his lesbian sidekick Carolyn Kaiser breaking into houses, apartments, and even a museum, in a madcap adventure replete with American Colonial silver, an F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscript, a priceless portrait, and a remarkable array of buttons. And, wouldn't you know it, there's a dead body, all stretched out on a Trent Barling carpet . . .

Author : Lawrence Block
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Rhodenbarr, Bernie (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 1540160106

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The Burglar in Short Order by Lawrence Block Pdf

Four decades ago, Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Lawrence Block introduced the world to one of his most beloved and enduring creations: Bernie Rhodenbarr, the clever, nimble-fingered star of novels such as Burglars Can't Be Choosers, The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling, and The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons. Called "the Heifetz of the picklock" by the New York Times, Bernie has stolen not only antiques, stamp collections, and priceless works of art but also millions of readers' hearts.Now, for all those craving more adventures of their favorite bookseller-by-day and burglar-by-night, The Burglar in Short Order for the first time ever collects all of Bernie's short-form appearances in one complete volume. From the story in which a prototype of Bernie first appeared ("A Bad Night For Burglars") to his appearances in Playboy and (maybe? It's kinda complicated) Cosmopolitan...from an essay discussing Bernie's misadventures in Hollywood (how in the world did Whoopi Goldberg ever get cast?) to a piece commissioned by a European publisher for a tourist guide to New York...you'll find every published story, article, and standalone excerpt Bernie has ever appeared in--plus two new, unpublished pieces: an introduction discussing the character's colorful origins and an afterword in which the author, contemplating retirement, comes face to face with his own creation. In all of mystery fiction, there has never been a character like Bernie--and in this, his dozenth book, he demonstrates all the charm and wit and kleptophilic ingenuity that has made two generations of readers welcome their favorite burglar into their homes.

Author : John Charles,Candace Clark,Joanne Hamilton-Selway,Joanna Morrison
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780838993910

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The Readers' Advisory Guide to Mystery by John Charles,Candace Clark,Joanne Hamilton-Selway,Joanna Morrison Pdf

With several well-chosen booklists, practical programming ideas, and a brand new compendium of print and web-based resources, your only crime would be not adding this guide to your collection!

Author : S. Powell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137031662

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100 American Crime Writers by S. Powell Pdf

100 American Crime Writers features discussion and analysis of the lives of crime writers and their key works, examining the developments in American crime writing from the Golden Age to hardboiled detective fiction. This study is essential to scholars and an ideal introduction to crime fiction for anyone who enjoys this fascinating genre.

Author : David Geherin
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476629780

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Funny Thing About Murder by David Geherin Pdf

Focusing on crime fiction and films that artfully combine comedy and misdeed, this book explores the reasons writers and filmmakers inject humor into their work and identifies the various comic techniques they use. The author covers both American and European books from the 1930s to the present, by such authors as Rex Stout, Raymond Chandler, Robert B. Parker, Elmore Leonard, Donald E. Westlake, Sue Grafton, Carl Hiaasen and Janet Evanovich, along with films from The Thin Man to the BBC's Sherlock series.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Ultramarine Publishing
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0893662127

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A Checklist of Lawrence Block by Anonim Pdf

Author : C. S. Lewis
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : EAN:8596547727958

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The Four Loves by C. S. Lewis Pdf

The Four Loves is a 1960 book by C. S. Lewis which explores the nature of love from a Christian and philosophical perspective through thought experiments. The book was based on a set of radio talks from 1958 which had been criticized in the U.S. at the time for their frankness about sex. C.S. Lewis examines storge or empathy love; philia, friendship love; eros, romantic love; and agape, or God love. Excerpt: "GOD is love," says St. John. When I first tried to write this book I thought that his maxim would provide me with a very plain highroad through the whole subject. I thought I should be able to say that human loves deserved to be called loves at all just in so far as they resembled that Love which is God."