Lawrence Block

The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart (Bernie Rhodenbarr, #7) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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 forces Bernie to flee empty-handed-and he soon finds himself implicated in a murder. Before you can say "who stole the strawberries?" he's hunting for a killer, up to his neck in the outrageous intrigues of a tiny Balkan nation . . . and menaced by more sinister fat men and unsavory toadies than the great Bogie himself butted heads with in pursuit of that darn bird!

"Wonderfully detailed and inspired writing…Bernie Rhodenbarr doesn't have to try for hipness, because hip is in the very air he breathes…He is cute without being cuddly, he is witty without looking like he'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…and his language-I suppose we should say Lawrence Block's language-is dry and droll and elegant, like how Dashiell Hammett would write if he were still doing the Thin Man books today." -The Guardian "With a writer like Block, a master plotter, trying to figure out the guilty party can definitely keep you turning the pages." -Toronto Star "Wonderful…hilarious dialogue and characters you wish you could invite over for supper. Block is a hoot, plain and simple. [Block's] written dialogue has the honesty of a conversation overheard on a bus…Bernie Rhodenbarr is a lot-of-laughs burglar. Recommended reading…Age has not dimmed Rhodenbarr's considerable charms. The wit runs fast and plot twists are quick as a cat burglar." -USA Today "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…burglar. If you like Donald Westlake's capers, you'll love Bernie. Mystery writers with the comic touch are rare, and Block is one of the best." -Washington Post Book World "Lawrence Block is as much a pro at writing mysteries as Rhodenbarr is at stealing. Beyond the mechanics of building a mystery, however, Block hasn't lost the mischievous gleam in his writing eye that leads readers through the twists and turns of a satisfying plot." -Wisconsin State Journal

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lawrence Block
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781513008592
• Artikelnr.: 42771651

Autorenporträt

Lawrence Block has been writing award-winning mystery and suspense fiction for half a century. His newest book, pitched by his Hollywood agent as "James M. Cain on Viagra," is The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes. His other recent novels include The Burglar Who Counted The Spoons, featuring Bernie Rhodenbarr; Hit Me, featuring philatelist and assassin Keller; and A Drop Of The Hard Stuff, featuring Matthew Scudder, brilliantly embodied by Liam Neeson in the new film, A Walk Among The Tombstones. Several of his other books have also been filmed, although not terribly well. He's well known for his books for writers, including the classic Telling Lies For Fun & Profit and Write For Your Life, and has just published a collection of his writings about the mystery genre and its practitioners, The Crime Of Our Lives. In addition to prose works, he has written episodic television (Tilt!) And the Wong Kar-wai film, My Blueberry Nights. He is a modest and humble fellow, although you would never guess as much from this biographical note.