Collection: Paperback Crime

Abstract: After Small Town, Block's very dark standalone novel about the aftermath of 9/11, his new Bernie Rhodenbarr mystery comes as comic relief. This time the antiquarian book dealer/burglar is asked by a friend to burgle the home of the man who stole the friend's girlfriend. But a few days b...

Abstract: Bookseller, thief - Bernie Rhodenbarr can't resist the lure or a long lost Kipling poem, even if it is locked inside a millionaire's high security library. So Bernie goes browsing and sure enough he liberates the object in question...but also finds a dead redhead and is caught with the ...

Abstract: For nearly a year Bernie Rhodenbarr has gone straight...well of a fashion. But Bernie has a new landlord for his Greenwich Village bookstore - Bernie Stoppelagard - not a nice man, who wants to increase his rent by 10,000 dollars...a month! Desperate times call for desperate measures. S...

Abstract: The thing about being a burglar is it's a secret best kept to yourself. Bernie Rhodenbarr discovers that his dentist knows he's a burglar and it seems that Dr. Sheldrake needs a burglar to steal back some valuable diamonds form his soon-to-be-ex-wife, Crystal. Bernie's visit to the Shel...