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The burglar who counted the spoons

Burglar Bernie Rodenbarr and his lesbian sidekick Carolyn Kaiser break into houses, apartments and even a museum, in a madcap adventure replete with American Colonial silver, an F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscript, a priceless portrait, a remarkable array of buttons -- and a murder that needs to be solve...

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Main Author: Block, Lawrence (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Burton, MI : Subterranean Press, [2015]
Edition: First trade hardcover edition.
Series: Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries ; 11.
Subjects:
Neary, Rose Ann, In Memory.
Rhodenbarr, Bernie (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Burglary > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction.
Mystery fiction > New York.
Suspense fiction > New York.
Summary: Burglar Bernie Rodenbarr and his lesbian sidekick Carolyn Kaiser break into houses, apartments and even a museum, in a madcap adventure replete with American Colonial silver, an F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscript, a priceless portrait, a remarkable array of buttons -- and a murder that needs to be solved.
Physical Description: 309 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9781596067011
1596067012
Author Notes: Lawrence Block is the author of the popular series' featuring Bernie Rhodenbarr, Matthew Scudder, and Chip Harrison. Over 2 million copies of Lawrence Block's books are in print. He has published articles and short fiction in American Heritage, Redbook, Playboy, GQ, and The New York Times, and has published several collections of short fiction in book form, most recently Collected Mystery Stories.

Block is a Grand Master of Mystery Writers of America. He has won the Edgar and Shamus awards four times, the Japanese Maltese Falcon award twice, as well as the Nero Wolfe award. In France, he was proclaimed a Grand Maitre du Roman Noir and has been awarded the Societe 813 trophy twice. Block was presented with the key to the city of Muncie, Indiana, and is a past president of the Private Eye Writers of America and the Mystery Writers of America.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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