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ISBN: 1842430521
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Price: £6.99
Casing: Paperback
Format: A (178 x 111mm)
Extent: 352pp
Rights: UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada, Australia & New Zealand
Pub. Date: January 2000

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lawrence Block is one of the most respected and bestselling names in mystery fiction and has won three Edgar and four Shamus awards. He is the author of the Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries and the Evan Tanner novels. All are published by No Exit Press. He is also the author of the outstanding Matthew Scudder series.

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ABOUT THE BOOK

What's Bernie Rhodenbarr doing in the country? He is a New York kind of guy, an urbane antiquarian bookseller who moonlights as a buttoned down burglar. Until an impossibly rare Raymond Chandler novel dedicated to Dashiell Hammett lures him and his buddy, Carolyn, from their own turf to the hills of Western Massachusetts. Before they knows it, they're smack in the middle of Agatha Christie country and you know what that means. A classic English country house. A guest list awash in eccentricity. And the snow keeps falling. And the bridge is out. And the phone lines are cut. And, one by one, somebody's killing off the guests. And....shhhh! There's a burglar in the library!

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

"...a homage to the golden age of murder mysteries..." - Donna Leon, The Sunday Times

"...Lawrence Block's language - is dry and droll and elegant, like how Dashiell Hammett would write if he was still doing the Thin Man books today..." - The Guardian

"...Extremely funny and laid back ..." - Literary Review

"...The pace is brisk, the dialogue snappy..and the hook of the Chandler first edition is lovely..." - TLS

"...For clean close-to-the-bone prose, the line goes from Dashiell Hammett to James M Cain to Lawrence Block. He's that good..." - Martin Cruz Smith,

"...A master of crime fiction..." - Jonathan Kellerman,

"...Block is one of the best ..." - Washington Post

"...if you are coming new to Lawrence Block.....it will be the beginning of a beautiful friendship..." - Vincent Banville, Irish Times