Burglars Can't Be Choosers

Burglars Can't Be Choosers
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 324
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ISBN-10 : 9780060582555
ISBN-13 : 0060582553
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis Burglars Can't Be Choosers by : Lawrence Block

Bernie Rhodenbarr is a personable chap, a good neighbor, a passable poker player. His chosen profession, however, might not sit well with some. Bernie is a burglar, a good one, effortlessly lifting valuables from the not-so-well-protected abodes of well-to-do New Yorkers like a modern-day Robin Hood. (The poor, as Bernie would be the first to tell you, alas, have nothing worth stealing.) He's not perfect, however; he occasionally makes mistakes. Like accepting a paid assignment from a total stranger to retrieve a particular item from a rich man's apartment. Like still being there when the cops arrive. Like having a freshly slain corpse lying in the next room, and no proof that Bernie isn't the killer. Now he's really got his hands full, having to locate the true perpetrator while somehow eluding the police -- a dirty job indeed, but if Bernie doesn't do it, who will?

Burglars Can't Be Choosers

Burglars Can't Be Choosers
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Publisher : Zondervan
Total Pages : 324
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780061808524
ISBN-13 : 0061808520
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis Burglars Can't Be Choosers by : Lawrence Block

Bernie Rhodenbarr is a personable chap, a good neighbor, a passable poker player. His chosen profession, however, might not sit well with some. Bernie is a burglar, a good one, effortlessly lifting valuables from the not-so-well-protected abodes of well-to-do New Yorkers like a modern-day Robin Hood. (The poor, as Bernie would be the first to tell you, alas, have nothing worth stealing.) He's not perfect, however; he occasionally makes mistakes. Like accepting a paid assignment from a total stranger to retrieve a particular item from a rich man's apartment. Like still being there when the cops arrive. Like having a freshly slain corpse lying in the next room, and no proof that Bernie isn't the killer. Now he's really got his hands full, having to locate the true perpetrator while somehow eluding the police -- a dirty job indeed, but if Bernie doesn't do it, who will?

The Burglar in the Closet

The Burglar in the Closet
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 293
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780061834066
ISBN-13 : 0061834068
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis The Burglar in the Closet by : Lawrence Block

A thief finds himself in the wrong place and suspected of the wrong crime in the “unfailingly entertaining” series from bestselling author (The New York Times). It’s hard to ignore someone with his hands in your mouth. Bernie Rhodenbarr’s all ears when Dr. Sheldrake, his dentist, starts complaining about his detestable, soon-to-be-ex wife, and happens to mention the valuable diamonds she keeps lying around the apartment. Since Bernie’s been known to supplement his income as a bookstore owner with the not-so-occasional bout of high-rise burglary, a couple of nights later he’s in the Sheldrake apartment with larceny on his mind—and has to duck into a closet when the lady of the house makes an unexpected entrance. Unfortunately he’s still there when an unseen assailant does Mrs. Sheldrake in . . . and then vanishes with the jewels. Bernie’s got to come out of the closet some time. But when he does, he’ll be facing a rap for a murder he didn’t commit—and for a burglary he certainly attempted—unless he can hunt down the killer who left him hanging. “Light-hearted crime at its very best.” —Robert Ludlum “Hilarious.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch “A forgery ring turns up—along with the breezy Manhattan repartee and charmingly crude New Yorkers we’ve come to expect from the likably smart-alecky Mr. Block.” —Kirkus Reviews

Shadow Catcher

Shadow Catcher
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 434
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780425266885
ISBN-13 : 0425266885
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Shadow Catcher by : James R. Hannibal

A decade after a failed special ops mission that left a stealth bomber at the bottom of the Persian Gulf, Air Force major Nick Baron leads the Triple Seven Chase team to find and dispose of the bomber before its technology can be stolen by adversarial forces, a mission that is challenged by the daring rescue of a soldier from the Chinese wilderness.

New Orleans Noir

New Orleans Noir
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Publisher : Akashic Books
Total Pages : 223
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ISBN-10 : 9781936070398
ISBN-13 : 1936070391
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis New Orleans Noir by : Ted O'Brien

This original anthology of noir fiction set across the Big Easy includes new stories by Ace Atkins, Laura Lippman, Maureen Tan, and more. New Orleans has always the home of the lovable rogue, the poison magnolia, the bent politico, and the heartless con artist. And in post-Katrina times, it’s the same old story—only with a new breed of carpetbagger thrown in. In other words, it’s fertile ground for noir fiction. This sparkling collection of tales, set both before and after the storm, explores the city’s gutted neighborhoods, its outwardly gleaming “sliver by the river,” its still-raunchy French Quarter, and other hoods so far from the Quarter they might as well be on another continent. It also looks back into the city’s darkly colorful, nineteenth century past. New Orleans Noir includes brand-new stories by Ace Atkins, Laura Lippman, Patty Friedmann, Barbara Hambly, Tim McLoughlin, Olympia Vernon, David Fulmer, Jervey Tervalon, James Nolan, Kalamu ya Salaam, Maureen Tan, Thomas Adcock, Jeri Cain Rossi, Christine Wiltz, Greg Herren, Julie Smith, Eric Overmyer, and Ted O’Brien. A portion of the profits from New Orleans Noir will be donated to Katrina KARES, a hurricane relief program sponsored by the New Orleans Institute that awards grants to writers affected by the hurricane.

The Burglar Who Counted The Spoons

The Burglar Who Counted The Spoons
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Publisher : Hachette UK
Total Pages : 363
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781409153580
ISBN-13 : 1409153584
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis The Burglar Who Counted The Spoons by : Lawrence Block

The long-awaited eleventh novel in the Bernie Rhodenbarr series. Everybody's favourite burglar returns in an eleventh adventure that finds him and his lesbian sidekick Carolyn Kaiser breaking into houses, apartments, and even a museum, in a madcap adventure replete with American Colonial silver, an F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscript, a priceless portrait, and a remarkable array of buttons. And, wouldn't you know it, there's a dead body, all stretched out on a Trent Barling carpet . . .

The Cardinal

The Cardinal
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0356017982
ISBN-13 : 9780356017983
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cardinal by : Henry Morton Robinson

The Burglar in Short Order

The Burglar in Short Order
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Publisher : Subterranean Press
Total Pages : 144
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1596069570
ISBN-13 : 9781596069572
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis The Burglar in Short Order by : Lawrence Block

Hit Me

Hit Me
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Publisher : Hachette UK
Total Pages : 308
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781409124863
ISBN-13 : 140912486X
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Hit Me by : Lawrence Block

The explosive fifth book in the Keller series from the master of classic American crime. Keller thought he was done killing people for money. He has a new name, a new wife, a new career, and a baby on the way. But old habits die hard. Business is bad and a phone call is all it takes to draw him back into the old game. This time, his work takes him to Dallas, to settle a domestic dispute; to Florida, where he joins a government witness on a cruise; to Wyoming, where a house has burned down; and to New York, where he lived for so many years. And where people might remember him...

The Invisible Hook

The Invisible Hook
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 288
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781400829866
ISBN-13 : 1400829860
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis The Invisible Hook by : Peter Leeson

Pack your cutlass and blunderbuss--it's time to go a-pirating! The Invisible Hook takes readers inside the wily world of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century pirates. With swashbuckling irreverence and devilish wit, Peter Leeson uncovers the hidden economics behind pirates' notorious, entertaining, and sometimes downright shocking behavior. Why did pirates fly flags of Skull & Bones? Why did they create a "pirate code"? Were pirates really ferocious madmen? And what made them so successful? The Invisible Hook uses economics to examine these and other infamous aspects of piracy. Leeson argues that the pirate customs we know and love resulted from pirates responding rationally to prevailing economic conditions in the pursuit of profits. The Invisible Hook looks at legendary pirate captains like Blackbeard, Black Bart Roberts, and Calico Jack Rackam, and shows how pirates' search for plunder led them to pioneer remarkable and forward-thinking practices. Pirates understood the advantages of constitutional democracy--a model they adopted more than fifty years before the United States did so. Pirates also initiated an early system of workers' compensation, regulated drinking and smoking, and in some cases practiced racial tolerance and equality. Leeson contends that pirates exemplified the virtues of vice--their self-seeking interests generated socially desirable effects and their greedy criminality secured social order. Pirates proved that anarchy could be organized. Revealing the democratic and economic forces propelling history's most colorful criminals, The Invisible Hook establishes pirates' trailblazing relevance to the contemporary world.