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

Burglars Can't Be Choosers

Burglars Can't Be Choosers
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 324
Release :
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?

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 . . .

A Burglar's Guide to the City

A Burglar's Guide to the City
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 305
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780374117269
ISBN-13 : 0374117268
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis A Burglar's Guide to the City by : Geoff Manaugh

The city seen from a unique point of view: those who want to break in and loot its treasures

The Burglar’s Christmas

The Burglar’s Christmas
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Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
Total Pages :
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ISBN-10 : 9781913724399
ISBN-13 : 1913724395
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis The Burglar’s Christmas by : Willa Cather

First published in 1896, The Burglar’s Christmas is a short story by the great American writer Willa Cather. Set in Chicago on a cold Christmas Eve, the down-and-out Crawford learns the value of forgiveness. 'The most sensuous of writers, Willa Cather builds her imagined world almost as solidly as our five senses build the universe around us.' — Rebecca West 'Her voice, laconical and richly sensuous, sings out with a note of unequivocal love for the people she is setting down on the page.' — Marina Warner

The Burglar on the Prowl

The Burglar on the Prowl
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Publisher : Random House Australia
Total Pages : 306
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781863252522
ISBN-13 : 1863252525
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis The Burglar on the Prowl by : Lawrence Block

Bernie Rhodenbarr is an antiquarian bookseller by day, burglar by night. Bernie is minding his own business when he is asked for a favour - a neat, uncomplicated bit of vengeful larceny that will reap a tidy profit - an offer the intrepid thief cannot refuse.

The Burglar in the Library

The Burglar in the Library
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Publisher : Bernie Rhodenbarr
Total Pages : 264
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1726778673
ISBN-13 : 9781726778671
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis The Burglar in the Library by : Lawrence Block

Since his 1977 debut, Bernie Rhodenbarr has won the devotion of an ever-increasing international audience. The lighthearted and light-fingered fellow, whose talents as a detective get him out of the trouble his burglar skills get him into, wins readers' hearts and minds as he goes along. THE BURGLAR IN THE LIBRARY is his eighth adventure.

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

The Burglary

The Burglary
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 609
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780307962966
ISBN-13 : 0307962962
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis The Burglary by : Betty Medsger

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS (IRE) BOOK AWARD WINNER • The story of the history-changing break-in at the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, by a group of unlikely activists—quiet, ordinary, hardworking Americans—that made clear the shocking truth that J. Edgar Hoover had created and was operating, in violation of the U.S. Constitution, his own shadow Bureau of Investigation. “Impeccably researched, elegantly presented, engaging.”—David Oshinsky, New York Times Book Review • “Riveting and extremely readable. Relevant to today's debates over national security, privacy, and the leaking of government secrets to journalists.”—The Huffington Post It begins in 1971 in an America being split apart by the Vietnam War . . . A small group of activists set out to use a more active, but nonviolent, method of civil disobedience to provide hard evidence once and for all that the government was operating outside the laws of the land. The would-be burglars—nonpro’s—were ordinary people leading lives of purpose: a professor of religion and former freedom rider; a day-care director; a physicist; a cab driver; an antiwar activist, a lock picker; a graduate student haunted by members of her family lost to the Holocaust and the passivity of German civilians under Nazi rule. Betty Medsger's extraordinary book re-creates in resonant detail how this group scouted out the low-security FBI building in a small town just west of Philadelphia, taking into consideration every possible factor, and how they planned the break-in for the night of the long-anticipated boxing match between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali, knowing that all would be fixated on their televisions and radios. Medsger writes that the burglars removed all of the FBI files and released them to various journalists and members of Congress, soon upending the public’s perception of the inviolate head of the Bureau and paving the way for the first overhaul of the FBI since Hoover became its director in 1924. And we see how the release of the FBI files to the press set the stage for the sensational release three months later, by Daniel Ellsberg, of the top-secret, seven-thousand-page Pentagon study on U.S. decision-making regarding the Vietnam War, which became known as the Pentagon Papers. The Burglary is an important and gripping book, a portrait of the potential power of non­violent resistance and the destructive power of excessive government secrecy and spying.

The Thief Lord

The Thief Lord
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Publisher : Chicken House
Total Pages : 350
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781909489158
ISBN-13 : 1909489158
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis The Thief Lord by : Cornelia Funke

Amid the crumbling splendour of wintertime Venice, two orphans are on the run. The mysterious Thief Lord offers shelter, but a terrible danger is gathering force...