This first outing for the Greenwich Village burglar finds Bernie set up for a fall when a simple job turns out to involve murder and the conveniently timed arrival of the cops.

"Bernie's tried to go legit by opening up a secondhand bookstore down in Greenwich Village but still can't resist his passion: stealing things. Especially when the price is right, and this time it most certainly is. Here's what Bernie's got to do: pilfer a rare Kipling edition and make off with a bundle."--BOOK JACKET. "That's the easy part. The hard part, Bernie finds, is returning the priceless volume to his employer. His instructions are to turn...

For rare book dealer Rhodenbarr, first editions are his pride, but illegal entry will always be his passion. When a job appraising the private collection of Gordon Onderdonk, a Manhattan millionaire, gives Rhodenbarr a chance to checkout the tempting personal holdings of the rich and famous

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...

The daytime bookseller and nighttime burglar, Bernie Rhodenbarr of New York is hired to steal a packet of letters someone wants destroyed. Instead, he finds a dead man and now he must clear his name

Bernie Rhodenbarr 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.