The Burglar Who Thought he was Bogart by Lawrence Block

The Burglar Who Thought he was Bogart by Lawrence Block

Bernie Rhodenbarr - a romantic? Hey, even burglars fall in love and in this case it's Bernie doing the falling, with the lovely and alluring Ilona. Night after night, sharing popcorn in the flickering shadow of a Bogie movie, Bernie finds himself tongue-tied - sometimes literally. It would appear Ilona's now doing all the stealing. Well, not really. Bernie's been approached by the oddly named Hugo Candlemas to pilfer a posh East Side apartment, make off with the portfolio and collect a fast, easy sum. A reasonable enough request for a trained burglar, sure, but just when things are going well, things turn bad.

For clean close-to-the-bone prose, the line goes from Dashiell Hammett to James M Cain to Lawrence BlockHe's that good -- Martin Cruz Smith

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	9781842430514
ISBN 10	1842430513
Title	The Burglar Who Thought he was Bogart
Author	Lawrence Block
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bedford Square Publishers
Year published	2002-02-01
Number of pages	360
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