The Burglar in the Library

Block, Lawrence

ISBN 10: 1874061815 / ISBN 13: 9781874061816

Edité par No Exit Press, London, 1997

A propos de cet article

First printing of the first British edition, first issue with spelling error at first sentence of first page; green cloth boards with red-ribbon-marker bound in. Signed by Lawrence Block directly on the title-page. Book in fine condition; dust jacket with a light crease to bottom corner of inside front flap, else fine.

N° de réf. du vendeur 023474

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Burglar in the Library
• Éditeur: No Exit Press, London
• Date de parution: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1874061815
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781874061816
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Illustrateur: Athena Gassoumis (Author photo); Alan Forester
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Mystery
  • Signed First Editions
  • Modern First Editions

A propos de ce titre

Synopsis

Bernie Rhodenbarr is a New York kind of guy, an urbane antiquarian bookseller who moonlights as a buttoned down burglar. Until a rare Raymond Chandler novel lures him and his buddy into Agatha Christie country, and you know what that means. A classic English country house. A guest list awash in eccentricity. And the snow keeps falling. The bridge is out. The phone lines are cut. And, one by one, somebody's killing off the guests. And...shh! There's a burglar in the library! 'Wonderfully detailed and inspired writing' - The Guardian

Présentation de l'éditeur

Bookseller and New-Yorker-to-the-bone, Bernie Rhodenbarr rarely ventures out of Manhattan, but he's excited about the romantic getaway he has planned for himself and current lady love Lettice at the Cuttleford House, a remote upstate b&b. Unfortunately, Lettice has a prior engagement—she's getting married . . . and not to Bernie—so he decides to take best buddy Carolyn instead. A restful respite from the big city's bustle would be too good to waste. Besides, there's a very valuable first edition shelved in the Cuttleford's library that Bernie's just itching to get his hands on. Did we neglect to mention that Bernie's a burglar?

But first he's got to get around a very dead body on the library floor. The plot's thickened by an isolating snowstorm, downed phone lines, the surprise arrival of Lettice and her reprehensible new hubby, and a steadily increasing corpse count. And it's Bernie who'll have to figure out whodunit . . . or die.