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ISBN: 1842431110
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Price: £6.99
Casing: Paperback
Format: A (178 x 111mm)
Extent: 224pp
Rights: UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada, Australia & New Zealand
Pub. Date: March 2004

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lawrence Block lives in New York with his wife. He has written over fifty books, won four Edgar awards, four Shamus Awards, is a Grandmaster of the Mystery Writers of America and has just been awarded the 2004 CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger award for a lifetimes achievement in crime writing. His series of nine Burglar books, eight Tanner titles and The Chip Harrison omnibus of 4 novels are all published by No Exit.

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Bernie Rhodenbarr is back and he's after the prized coin collection of one Herb Colcannon and he has the inside information to help him....or so he thinks! But the Colcannon house is a set-up and he's not the first to think of the heist. What's more the collection consists of just one coin...worth over $250,000...so who is Bernie going to sell it to and how is he going to get away with it?

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

"...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

"...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