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Antiquarian bookseller by day, burglar by night, Bernie has an innate knack, a gift, for getting into places designed to keep him out. He is a gentleman who knows and loves his territory, the gloriously diverse streets of Manhattan; a connoisseur who surrounds himself with the finer things in life. Bernie is asked for a favor -- a neat, uncomplicated bit of vengeful larceny that will reap a tidy profit -- an offer the intrepid thief can't refuse.
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A murderer dubbed "The Will of the People," has taken on the self-appointed task of righting the wrongs of the criminal justice system by killing those villains the law cannot touch, but he calls down the wrath of detective Matt Scudder when he targets Matt's friend, defense attorney Adrian Whitfield.
3) Small town
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A man, driven insane by the deaths of his wife and children in the collapse of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, embarks on a murder spree in the city of New York, unwittingly changing the lives of a struggling author who is accused of the crimes, a former police commissioner who sets out to catch the killer, and others who somehow become connected to the events.
4) Hit parade
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John Keller is everyone's favorite hit man. He's cool. Reliable. A real pro: the hit man's hit man. The inconvenient wife, the aging sports star, the business partner--he's taken care of them all, quietly and efficiently. Keller's got a code of honor, though he'd never call it that. And he keeps the job strictly business--"What happens is you wind up thinking of each subject not as a person to be killed but as a problem to be solved." But while Keller...
6) Hit me
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A man named Nicholas Edwards lives in New Orleans renovating houses, doing honest work and making decent money at it. Between his family and his stamp collection, all his spare time is happily accounted for. Sometimes it's hard to remember that he used to kill people for a living. But when the nation's economy tanks, taking the construction business with it, all it takes is one phone call to drag him back into the game. It may say Nicholas Edwards...
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Burglar and bookseller Bernie Rhodenbarr has retired to the New England countryside for a weekend of supposed rest and romance, but his real agenda involves a rare, autographed first edition of Raymond Chandler's "The Big Sleep," that someone is obviously willing to kill for.
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A story "recounted in journal form by its protagonist, and begins when he walks into a roadhouse outside of Bakersfield, California, and walks out with a woman. And rapes and murders her. But, um, not in that order. Right. But it's what he does with the rest of his life that's really interesting..."--Publisher's description
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Bookselling burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr doesn't generally get philosophical about his criminal career. He's good at it, it's addictively exciting-and it pays a whole lot better than pushing old tomes. He steals therefore he is, period.
He might well ponder, however, the deeper meaning of events at the luxurious Chelsea brownstone of Herb and Wanda Colcannon, which is apparently burgled three times on the night Bernie breaks in: once before his visit...
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Block's short stories are intelligent and respectful of the reader yet often take an unexpected turn. He plays fair. If you reread the story, you'll find that he left you little clues about the final destination but didn't connect the dots. Block is a master of the long-form mystery, and this collection proves he's got the short form locked down as well.
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Bernie Rhodenbarr is a personable chap, a good neighbor, a passable poker player. His chosen profession, however, might not sit well with some. Bernie is a burglar, a good one, effortlessly lifting valuables from the not-so-well-protected abodes of well-to-do New Yorkers like a modern-day Robin Hood. (The poor, as Bernie would be the first to tell you, alas, have nothing worth stealing.)
He's not perfect, however; he occasionally makes mistakes....
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William Morrow
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2005
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1st ed.
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A man in a Virginia prison awaits execution for three hideous murders he swears, in the face of irrefutable evidence, he did not commit. Meanwhile, Scudder, in Block's sixteenth Matthew Scudder novel, has just agreed to investigate the ostensibly suspicious online lover of an acquaintance. It seems simple enough. But when people start dying and the victims are increasingly closer to home, it becomes clear that a vicious killer is at work, and the...
20) Keller's fedora
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Happily retired, living under a new name with his wife and daughter, Keller thought he was out of the murder-for-hire business. Until he got the call from his old employer, asking him to tackle the most unusual assignment of his career. The client's wife is having an affair, and Keller's been hired to get rid of her lover. But who is this mysterious lover? The husband doesn't know?́?he only knows that she has one, and he wants the man dead. It's...
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