Bernie's passion for Humphrey Bogart movies leads him to a beautiful damsel in distress, a dangerous international conspiracy, and more than a few incriminating bodies.
New York (State)--New York
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Author:Block, LawrenceSummary: - Author:Block, LawrenceSummary:
Bernie Rhodenbarr and his dog-grooming partner in crime, Carolyn, are planning the perfect crime. Tonight, they will rob a brownstone while the well-heeled owners are out of town with their vicious watch dog. But when Bernie...
- Author:Block, LawrenceSummary:
In a classic Bernie Rhodenbarr thriller, the buglar-turned-bookseller plots to steal the lost manuscript of a Kipling poem, but an unexpected twist leaves the police hot on his trail.
- Author:Block, LawrenceSummary:
Ever since The Burglar on the Prowl climbed the bestseller lists in 2004, fans have been clamoring for a new book featuring the lighthearted and lightfingered Bernie Rhodenbarr. Now everybody's favorite burglar returns in an eleventh...
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Author:Cabot, Meg.Summary:With her upcoming nuptials to PI Cooper Cartwright only weeks away, Heather's already stressed. When a pretty junior turns up dead, and every student in the dorm where she works is a possible suspect, Heather thinks it can't get any...
- Author:Deaver, JefferySummary:
Lincoln Rhyme, ex-head of NYPD forensics, was the nation's foremost criminologist until a job accident left him a quadriplegic who can move just one finger. He no longer wants to live until he sees the crime-scene report of a buried...
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Author:Fitzgerald, F. ScottSummary:Set in the heady Jazz Age of New York, "The beautiful and damned" chronicles the relationship between Anthony Patch, a Harvard-educated aspiring aesthete, and his beautiful trophy wife, Gloria, as they wait to inherit his grandfather's...
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Author:Wharton, EdithSummary:Set in the 1870s, Edith Wharton examines the American elite culture on the East Coast. Newland Archer is a lawyer and heir to one of New York City's most prominent families. He is arraigned to be married to May Welland. Newland is...
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Author:Suede, DamonSummary:Dove c'è fumo, c'è fuoco... Dallཇ settembre, il pompiere di Brooklyn Griff Muir ha lottato contro i suoi sentimenti impossibili nei confronti del suo migliore amico e partner alla Scala 181, Dante Anastagio. Sfortunatamente, Dante è...
- Author:Bartoletti, Susan CampbellSummary:
What happens when a person's reputation has been forever damaged? With archival photographs and text among other primary sources, this riveting biography of Mary Mallon by the Sibert medalist and Newbery Honor winner Susan...
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Author:Queen, EllerySummary:Ellery Queen is persuaded to accompany an old friend and sculptor to his ancestral home when the latter arrives at Ellery's house covered in blood and unable to remember anything from the past few weeks. Once there, tensions erupt and...
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Author:Bly, NellieSummary:In 1887, Nellie Bly had herself committed to the notorious Blackwell's Island insane asylum in New York City with the goal of discovering what life was like for its patients. While there, Bly experienced firsthand the shocking abuse and...
- Author:Thor, BradSummary:
Fiendish al-Qaeda terrorists are planning to rescue their imprisoned WMD expert during the chaos they create with their July 4th destruction of all bridges and tunnels to Manhattan Island. Now it's up to ex-SEAL Scot Harvath to stop...
- Author:Towles, AmorSummary:
New York Times Bestseller "A knockout collection. ... Sharp-edged satire deceptively wrapped like a box of Neuhaus chocolates, Table for Two is a winner." - The New York Times From the bestselling author of The Lincoln...
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Author:Raphael, MarieSummary:Marisia, a Polish teenager, comes to America at the turn of the twentieth century and must fend for herself on New York's Lower East Side.
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Author:Lieberman, Luke, McCarthy, KevinSummary:New York is a place of magik; not the kind you read about in fairy tales, but the kind of magik you find in the real world—hard and dangerous Street Magik. Yet the city dwellers live, work, and play unaware of the things hidden in the...
- Author:Christopher, AdamSummary:
Christmas, Hawkins, 1984. All Chief Jim Hopper wants is to enjoy a quiet first Christmas with Eleven, but his adopted daughter has other plans. Over Hopper’s protests, she pulls a cardboard box marked “New York” out of the basement -...
- Author:Musgrave, JimSummary:
As seen in U.S.A. Today. Talked about on Authors on the Air. In this steampunk mystery, Jim Musgrave portrays late 19th century New York City with a horrifying yet comic vision of science gone awry. Detective Patrick O'Malley struggles...
- Author:Barelli, JohnSummary:
When he retired as the chief security officer of New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, John Barelli had spent the better part of forty years responsible not only for one of the richest treasure troves on the planet, but the...
- Author:Gardner, Craig ShawSummary:
Brian Timilty is running for mayor on an anti-superhero ticket, and the amazing Spider-Man is his biggest target. But Timilty is secretly the pawn of Tyler Stewart, a wealthy businessman seeking to take over New York's mobs. To ensure...
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