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The Burglar in the Library

出版	Lawrence Block, 2015
ISBN	151309260X9781513092607
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=StUJyAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Didn't Agatha Christie already write this book? Well, not exactly ... 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 & mdash;she's getting married ... and not to Bernie & mdash;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 trying. & ldquo;Wonderfully detailed and inspired writing & hellip;Bernie Rhodenbarr doesn & rsquo;t have to try for hipness, because hip is in the very air he breathes & hellip;He is cute without being cuddly, he is witty without looking like he & rsquo;s striving for it, and he is rakish without possessing a single mean streak in his lithe and sinuous body. His plots are cunning and inventive & hellip;and his language & mdash;I suppose we should say Lawrence Block & rsquo;s language & mdash;is dry and droll and elegant, like how Dashiell Hammett would write if he were still doing the Thin Man books today. & rdquo; & mdash;The Guardian & ldquo;Block always seems to be having the time of his life in this series about a nimble-witted New York City antiquarian book dealer and still once-in-a-while & hellip;burglar. If you like Donald Westlake & rsquo;s capers, you & rsquo;ll love Bernie. Mystery writers with the comic touch are rare, and Block is one of the best. & rdquo; & mdash;Washington Post Book World & ldquo;A witty series, Bernie is incorrigibly adorable. Between his inquiring mind and his sticky fingers, Bernie is the ideal sleuth. Notre Dame at dusk. Pepy & rsquo;s account of the great fire of London. A really good cashmere coat. Some treasures are timeless & hellip;I feel like putting Bernie Rhodenbarr on that list. & rdquo; & mdash;New York Times Book Review