The burglar who liked to quote Kipling

a Bernie Rhodenbarr mystery

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The burglar who liked to quote Kipling

a Bernie Rhodenbarr mystery

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Bookseller and thief Bernie Rhodenbarr can’t resist the lure of a long lost Kipling poem, even if it is locked inside a millionaire’s high security library. So Bernie goes browsing and sure enough he liberates the object in question . . . but also finds a dead redhead and is caught with the proverbial smoking gun by those boys in blue, who are ready to book Bernie for Murder One!Bernie Rhodenbarr has gone legit -- almost -- as the new owner of a used bookstore in New York's Greenwich Village. Of course, dusty old tomes don't always turn a profit, so to make ends meet, Bernie's forced, on occasion, to indulge in his previous occupation: burglary. Besides which, he likes it.Now a collector is offering Bernie an opportunity to combine his twin passions by stealing a very rare and very bad book-length poem from a rich man's library.The heist goes off without a hitch. The delivery of the ill-gotten volume, however, is a different story. Drugged by the client's female go-between, Bernie wakes up in her apartment to find the book gone, the lady dead, a smoking gun in his hand, and the cops at the door. And suddenly he's got to extricate himself from a rather sticky real-life murder mystery and find a killer -- before he's booked for Murder One.

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Signet
Language
English
Pages
316

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Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling, The (Bernie Rhodenbarr Mysteries)
March 1, 2005, HarperTorch
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The burglar who liked to quote Kipling: a Bernie Rhodenbarr mystery
1996, Thorndike Press
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The burglar who liked to quote Kipling
1982, Pocket Books

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Originally published: New York; Dutton, 1996.

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316p.
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316

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OL19494644M
Internet Archive
burglarwholiked000bloc
ISBN 10
0451180755
Library Thing
200669
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