The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams by Lawrence Block

The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams by Lawrence Block

For nearly a year Bernie Rhodenbarr has gone straight..well of a fashion. But Bernie has a new landlord for his Greenwich Village bookstore - Bernie Stoppelagard - not a nice man, who wants to increase his rent by $10,000..a month! Desperate times call for desperate measures. So Bernie is back to work burgling an apartment of a couple on a European tour of untraceable cash. There is only one problem - the naked man in the bathroom - and the fact that he is deceased. At the same time the apartment of Stoppelgard's brother-in-law has been relieved of a million dollar baseball card collection and somehow Bernie is being blamed (read: framed) for that crime. Mix in a mysterious woman and a crotchety old New York policeman and Bernie seems in big trouble. So what's the answer...Find the baseball cards....and steal them back.

'Bernie Rhodenbarr doesn't have to try for hipness, because hip is in the very air he breathesThe Burglar is just adorable. He is cute without being cuddly, he is witty without looking like he's striving for it, and he is rakish without possessing a single mean streak in his lithe and sinuous body. And his language - I suppose we should say Lawrence Block's language - is dry and droll and elegant, like how Dashiell Hammett would write if he was still doing the Thin Man books today.' - The Guardian; 'For clean close-to-the-bone prose, the line goes from Dashiell Hammett to James M Cain to Lawrence Block. He's that good.' - Martin Cruz Smith; 'Fast, Funny, Terrific' - Ed McBain; 'Excellent N.Y. background and unusual characters make Block a detective writer to savour' - Daily Mirror; 'A homage to the golden age of murder mysteries' - Donna Leon, The Sunday Times

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!

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781842430682
ISBN 10	1842430688
Title	The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams
Author	Lawrence Block
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bedford Square Publishers
Year published	2002-09-01
Number of pages	352
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.