Burglars can't be choosers

Lawrence Block

ISBN 10: 0394411838 / ISBN 13: 9780394411835

Published by Random House, 1977

About this Item

Book is missing dust jacket. Corners bumped. Slight staining on cover. Book inscribed 'For Alice- Love, Larry'.

Seller Inventory # 574475

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Burglars can't be choosers
• Publisher: Random House
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394411838
• ISBN 13: 9780394411835
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: USED Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Inscribed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • RARE Fiction Modern

About this title

Synopsis

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?

Review

The latest in the Bernie Rhodenbarr series by multiple-award winner Block has Bernie underestimating the difficulty of breaking into a posh East Side apartment to steal a blue leather-covered box. No box, dead body, bum murder rap. Not so easy. The New York Times Book Review has called the Rhodenbarr books, "A witty series. Bernie is incorrigibly adorable. Between his inquiring mind and his sticky fingers, Bernie is the ideal sleuth."