The Burglar in the Library

Block, Lawrence

ISBN 10: 1874061815 / ISBN 13: 9781874061816

Published by No Exit Press, London, 1997

About this Item

First printing of the first British edition, first issue with spelling error at first sentence of first page; green cloth boards with red-ribbon-marker bound in. Signed by Lawrence Block directly on the title-page. Book in fine condition; dust jacket with a light crease to bottom corner of inside front flap, else fine.

Seller Inventory # 023474

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Burglar in the Library
• Publisher: No Exit Press, London
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1874061815
• ISBN 13: 9781874061816
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Athena Gassoumis (Author photo); Alan Forester
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mystery
  • Signed First Editions
  • Modern First Editions

About this title

Synopsis

Bound in publisher's original paper over boards. Spine stamped in gilt. Signed on title page. First issue book with "settle" instead of "settled" on first sentence of page 1. From the library of Howard Block, cousin of Lawrence Block.

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.