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First publish date: 1980
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Cozy Mystery
Authors: Lawrence Block
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In an elite New England college, a charismatic classics professor lures a group of eccentric students into obsessive study, leading them from intellectual curiosity to corruption, betrayal, and ultimately murder.

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Bernieβ€―Rhodenbarr, a charming New York burglar with a moral compass, must locate the real killer of a wealthy man while the police close in on him.

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πŸ“˜ Drowned hopes

A burglar has $700,000 stashed in a New York reservoir, and now it's Tom Jimson's job to retrieve it by blowing up a dam.

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πŸ“˜ Silent Night

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πŸ“˜ The Burglar in the Rye

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πŸ“˜ The Amateur Cracksman

A.J. Raffles, a dashing gentleman thief of late Victorian England, captivates with his jewel heists and cunning escapes, assisted by loyal friend Bunny Manders.

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πŸ“˜ The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams

In this quirky detective tale, Bernie Rhodenbarr, a reformed burglar, is forced back into crime when a landlord threatens a massive rent hike and the police wrongly accuse him of stealing a priceless baseball card collection.

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πŸ“˜ The Lincoln lawyer

Mickey Haller, a cynical Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer, tackles a high‑paying case that turns out to be far more dangerous than it first appears.

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πŸ“˜ Get real

A thief and his gang are hired to do a reality TV show, but their next score will be captured on camera.

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πŸ“˜ The Quiet Game
 by Greg Iles


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πŸ“˜ The Burglar on the Prowl (Block, Lawrence (Spoken Word))

Bernie Rhodenbarr, an antiquarian bookseller by day and skilled burglar by night, is drawn into a deadly heist that turns into a murder mystery across Manhattan's streets.

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A bumbling thief, Dortmunder, returns from the wild, sparking a police chase and a series of crimes across the city.

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πŸ“˜ The Burglar Who Counted The Spoons

Bernie Rhodenbarr teams with sidekick Carolyn Kaiser in another caper, breaking into homes, an apartment, and a museum to steal silver, a Fitzgerald manuscript, a portrait, and an odd collection of buttons, while one body lies on a Trent Barling carpet.

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πŸ“˜ What's the worst that could happen?

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πŸ“˜ The burglar who painted like Mondrian


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Bernie Rhodenbarr, a New York bookseller and thief, travels to a remote upstate inn to steal a valuable first‑edition book, only to encounter a snowbound murder mystery that forces him to solve a serial killer on the premises.

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Bertrand "Bernie" Rhodenbarr, a former thief turned bookseller in New York’s Greenwich Village, stumbles into a murder mystery when a high‑security library he steals from is hit with deadly intrigue.

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πŸ“˜ The burglar who thought he was Bogart


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πŸ“˜ Burglar in Closet

Detective Bernie Rhodenbarr, a part‑time thief, finds himself framed for murder after a burglar plunders a dentist’s apartment and kills its wife.

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An ex-cop, John Dortmunder, reluctantly joins the criminal underworld to recover a stolen treasure, facing impossible odds and a mysterious past.

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