Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries
Author
Author
Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 1
Description
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....
Author
Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 2
Description
An attempted robbery involves jewel thief Bernie Rhodenbarr in a murder investigation in which he becomes the chief suspect.
Author
Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 4
Description
Bookselling burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr doesn't generally get philosophical about his criminal career. He's good at it, it's addictively exciting-and it pays a whole lot better than pushing old tomes. He steals therefore he is, period.
He might well ponder, however, the deeper meaning of events at the luxurious Chelsea brownstone of Herb and Wanda Colcannon, which is apparently burgled three times on the night Bernie breaks in: once before his visit...
Author
Series
Description
Bookseller/burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr sets out to steal a priceless Mondrian painting from the home of Manhattan millionaire Gordon Onderdonk, but his plans go awry when he enters Onderdonk's apartment to find the painting missing, and a voluptuous stranger waiting in the dark.
Author
Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 7
Description
Bookseller Bernie Rhodenbarr's in love-with an exotic Eastern European beauty who shares his obsession with Humphrey Bogart movies. He's in heaven, munching popcorn with his new amour every night at a Bogart Film Festival-until their Casablanca-esque idyll is cut short by his other secret passion: burglary.
When he's hired to pilfer a portfolio of valuable documents from a Park Avenue apartment, Bernie can hardly refuse. But the occupant's early return...
Author
Series
Description
Burglar and bookseller Bernie Rhodenbarr has retired to the New England countryside for a weekend of supposed rest and romance, but his real agenda involves a rare, autographed first edition of Raymond Chandler's "The Big Sleep," that someone is obviously willing to kill for.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
280 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bookseller-burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr gets caught up in a tangled web of intrigue when he agrees to help reculsive author Gulliver Fairborn retrieve the letters he wrote to his former literary agent Anthea Landau, who is planning to auction the letters off.
Author
Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 10
Description
Antiquarian bookseller by day, burglar by night, Bernie has an innate knack, a gift, for getting into places designed to keep him out. He is a gentleman who knows and loves his territory, the gloriously diverse streets of Manhattan; a connoisseur who surrounds himself with the finer things in life. Bernie is asked for a favor -- a neat, uncomplicated bit of vengeful larceny that will reap a tidy profit -- an offer the intrepid thief can't refuse.
Author
Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 11
Description
Ever since ''The Burglar on the Prowl'' climbed the bestseller lists in 2004, fans have been clamoring for a new book featuring the lighthearted and lightfingered Bernie Rhodenbarr. Now everybody's favorite 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,...
12)
The burglar who met Fredric Brown , Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 12
Author
Author
Series
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
139 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Burglar in Short Order for the first time ever collects all of Bernie's short-form appearances in one complete volume. From the story in which a prototype of Bernie first appeared ("A Bad Night For Burglars") to his appearances in Playboy and (maybe? It's kinda complicated) Cosmopolitan...from an essay discussing Bernie's misadventures in Hollywood (how in the world did Whoopi Goldberg ever get cast?) to a piece commissioned by a European publisher...