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The Burglar in the Rye (Bernie Rhodenbarr Mysteries) Audio cassette - 1999

Name: The Burglar in the Rye (Bernie Rhodenbarr Mysteries)
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Author: Lawrence Block
ISBN: 9780141800028

by Block, Lawrence; Block, Lawrence

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Summary

Gulliver Fairborn's novel, Nobody's Baby, changed Bernie Rhodenbarr's life. And now pretty Alice Cottrell, Fairborn's one-time paramour, wants the bookselling, book-loving burglar to break into a room in New York's teeth-achingly charming Paddington Hotel and purloin some of the writer's very personal letters before an unscrupulous agent can sell them. Here's an opportunity to use his unique talents in the service of the revered, famously reclusive author. But when Bernie gets there, the agent is dead . . . and Bernie's wanted for murder. (He really hates when that happens!)Perhaps it's karmic payback; Bernie did help himself to a ruby necklace on his way out. (But it was lying there. And he is a burglar.) Now he's in even hotter water. And he'll need to use every trick in the book—maybe going so far as to entice the hermitic Fairborn himself out of seclusion—to bring this increasingly twisted plot to a satisfying denouement.

From the publisher

Bernie Rhodenbarr, bookseller-by-day, burglar-by-night is back in action in his ninth outing. Our burglar finds himself in a jam when he agrees to break into the Paddington Hotel and steal the letters of a famous novelist. Once he arrives, he finds the letters gone, and the agent's dead body...and the police fast on his trail.