THE BURGLAR IN THE LIBRARY: A Bernie Rhodenbarr Mystery

Block, Lawrence

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Langue : anglais

Edité par No Exit Press, London, United Kingdom, 1997

1874061815 / 9781874061816

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Precedes US edition. . Another low print run British edition. Bibliomystery. 1st ed, first state with "settle" for settled" on first line of text. Red ribbion page marker attached. "All princely burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr wanted was to steal off to the Berkshires for a romantic weekend with Lettice Runcible at the oh-so-English Cuttleford House, then to go home with a rumored Cuttleford book--a copy of The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler inscribed to Dashiell Hammett--that wasn't his. But things don't exactly work out that way. First off, Lettice announces that she can't go because she's getting married that weekend, and when Bernie handsomely adapts by bringing his platonic chum Carolyn Kaiser along instead, who should complete the fanciful assortment of guests at Cuttleford House but Lettice and her bridegroom? As for the library that Bernie hopes to plunder, it's got more foot traffic than the Library of Congress, even before the discovery of a guest's cooling corpse makes it the center of attention. The sedate country-house setting, the general jollity (the grue is leavened by a precocious ten-year- old and the casual slaughters of several victims who barely have names, much less faces), and, above all, the body-in-the-library scream Agatha Christie, but the killer's model seems to be Christie's darkest novel: And Then There Were None. The cut phone lines, the sabotaged snowblower, the ruined bridge to the outside world--all these retro trappings climax in a denouement (in the library, naturally) that must be one of the most deliriously overextended in the history of the genre. Bernie, evidently recovered from his most recent folly (The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart, 1995), has a fine time mocking the conventions of Christie's bygone age. Fans who don't insist on plotting as tight as Christie's will enjoy themselves just as much as if it were her. " --.…

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Titre
THE BURGLAR IN THE LIBRARY: A Bernie Rhodenbarr Mystery
Auteur
Block, Lawrence
Éditeur
No Exit Press, London, United Kingdom
Année de publication
1997
État de l'article
Fine
Jaquette
Fine
Type de livre
Book
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
1874061815
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781874061816
Édition
First Edition.
Série
Livre 8 sur 12: Bernie Rhodenbarr
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Bibliomystery, Mystery and Crime, New England, Store 15

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