Burglars Can't Be Choosers by Lawrence Block

Burglars Can't Be Choosers by Lawrence Block

Introducing Bernie Rhodenbarr, N.Y.C.'s prince of thieves - who really should have known better! When the mysterious pear shaped man with a lot of uncomfortably accurate information about Bernie and his career offered him five big ones to liberate a blue leather box - unopened - from an East Side apartment, it would have been a good time to plead a previous engagement..but times were tough. Everything was straightforward - the box was where it should have been but before the liberation took place , two men in blue coats turned up. Still all was not lost, there was always a way to work things out...that was before they discovered the body in the bedroom and Bernie decided to leg it.

'Introducing Bernie Rhodenbarr, New York City's prince of thievesWhen the mysterious pear-shaped man with a lot of uncomfortably accurate information about Bernie and his career offered him five big ones to liberate a blue leather box - unopened - from an East Side apartment, it would have been a good time to plead a previous engagement... but times were tough. Everything was straightforward - the box was where it should have been - but before the liberation took place, two men in blue coats turned up. Still, there was always a way to work things out... but that was before they discovered the body in the bedroom. Block's series of nine Burglar books is one of the glories of modern crime writing, and this is one of the sharpest.'

Lawrence Block was born in Buffalo, New York in 1938. He attended Antioch College in Ohio then went to work in the mailroom of a New York publisher. His first story was published in 1957 and he has gone on to write more than thirty novels and countless stories and articles, not just under his own name but also as Paul Kavanagh. Indeed Lawrence Block has had several pseudonyms having learned his writer's art crafting erotic literature as Andrew Shaw, Sheldon Lord and Jill Emerson!

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ISBN 13	9781842430712
ISBN 10	1842430718
Title	Burglars Can't Be Choosers
Author	Lawrence Block
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bedford Square Publishers
Year published	2002-08-01
Number of pages	192
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