The Burglar in the Library

Block, Lawrence

ISBN 10: 1842430521 / ISBN 13: 9781842430521

Published by No Exit Press, 1998,, 1998

About this Item

paperback, slight browning, clean and tight, no inscriptions, spine not creased, Very Good condition. ISBN: 1842430521.

Seller Inventory # 928588

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Burglar in the Library
• Publisher: No Exit Press, 1998,
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1842430521
• ISBN 13: 9781842430521
• Binding: Soft cover
• Seller catalogs:
  • fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Bernie Rhodenbarr is a New York kind of guy, an urbane antiquarian bookseller who moonlights as a buttoned down burglar. Until a rare Raymond Chandler novel lures him and his buddy into Agatha Christie country, and you know what that means. A classic English country house. A guest list awash in eccentricity. And the snow keeps falling. The bridge is out. The phone lines are cut. And, one by one, somebody's killing off the guests. And...shh! There's a burglar in the library! 'Wonderfully detailed and inspired writing' - The Guardian

Review

Bernie, if you recall, is that likeable young New Yorker who has tempered his passion for stealing classy works of art with the more staid vocation of selling books. But his passion always reigns. In this eighth Bernie Rhodenbarr caper, author Lawrence Block mimics the murderer's M.O. in Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None while preserving the premise of the Burglar series. Bernie bursts in on someone else's wrongdoing before he gets to have any fun. All he wants is to make off with a Raymond Chandler first edition, but instead, red-handed, he stumbles on foul play. Lots of amusing send-ups of the genre's older conventions, particularly those oft-employed twists of dame Christie.