Bernie Rhodenbarr The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian, Book 5, (Paperback)

from tjsjohanna

Bernie's back - not exactly on the hook for murder (after all - the evidence was really circumstantial and would never hold up in the real world. I actually either figured out or remembered how the crime was committed this time around, but Mr. Block does a good job of incorporating all the elemen...

from markatread

Bernie takes advantage of being in the Charlemagne for a legtimate reason - the appraisal of Gordon Ordendonk's book collection - to break into the Appling apartment and steal a few stamps. Bernie's lesbian friend, Carolyn, has her cat kidnapped and the ransom price is $250,000. The catnappers kn...

from AliceAnna

Ole Bernie is very entertaining. A bit of Perry Mason, nah, make that Agatha Christie ending where all the suspects are rounded up in the drawing room for an explanation of the crime. The sex scene was a bit contrived and unrealistic but these aren't exactly high-brow literature. But all in all, ...

from DaveWilde

The "burglar" series is a funny, at times hilarious, series by Lawrence Block. Bernie, the star of the books, is a burglar by night and bookseller by day. He abhors violence and doesn't kill. Nevertheless, in the course of burglarizing, he often either stumbles across a body or one is found left ...

from crazybatcow

Clean, crisp writing. Funny scenes/one liners/comments. The mystery is a bit complicated (and difficult to follow even when it's spelled out in the end). There are a lot of "art" details - like, details about classic valuable paintings which... well, maybe it provides some culture for me. All in ...