Great Harvard Robbery - Hardcover

Minahan, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393026051 ISBN 13: 9780393026054

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1988

Synopsis

In a fast-paced new "Little John" Rawlings novel, an ingenious thief holds Harvard's priceless Gutenberg Bible for ransom. His demands: that the Harvard Corporation divest its holdings in South Africa. And for every day they delay, they will receive one page of the Bible--desecrated.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Stripped down to the bare bones, Minihan's newest mystery promises a lively chase, but its execution falls just short of dull. In his sixth appearance ( The Great Diamond Robbery , The Great Hotel Robbery ), folksy, plain-spoken New York police detective "Little John" Rawlins matches wits with the powers of darkness. While investigating the robbery of a statue guarding a Catholic school, he follows the sound of scratching chalk to an empty schoolroom with a blackboard covered by Satanic scrawlings. Later, a huge cobra materializes where the statue had stood, then vanishes, untouched by a fusillade of police bullets. The apparent focus of this harassment is Commisioner Reilly, who carefully observes the typed instructions that follow the pranks. When Reilly attends Harvard's 350th birthday celebration, the university's Gutenberg Bible is stolen; for its return, the invisible thief demands the university sell its holdings in South Africa. Little John throws out some pithy lines while moving toward an unlikely resolution, but only staunch fans could enjoy his repetitious patter about Brahmins, eggheads, and the rich versus the common man.
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About this edition

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0393026051
• ISBN 13: 9780393026054
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 267