{"id":2130,"date":"2012-08-30T13:40:36","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T17:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/?p=2130"},"modified":"2012-08-30T13:40:36","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T17:40:36","slug":"the-burglar-who-liked-to-quote-kipling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/the-burglar-who-liked-to-quote-kipling\/","title":{"rendered":"The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our favorite burglar is back in the first of “The Burglar Who” books that actually has “The Burglar Who” in the title.\u00a0 Joining Bernie on his capers are some old faces and some new faces.\u00a0 Ray Kirschmann, “the best cop money could buy” is back to either arrest Bernie, or not, or maybe just get Bernie to “acquire” a fur for Mrs. Kirschmann.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We get to meet Carolyn Kaiser.\u00a0 Carolyn is “crowding 30, with\u00a0 Dutch-cut dark-brown hair and remarkably clear blue eyes. She stands five-one in high and never wears them, and she’s built like a fire hydrant, which is dangerous in her line of work.” Carolyn is a dog groomer who owns the Poodle Factory, the business two doors up from Bernie’s new business.<\/p>\n

You see Bernie is now an honest bookseller who owns Barnegat Books.\u00a0 He purchased the book store sometime between his last brush with the law and this current adventure.\u00a0 Bernie met Carolyn about the time he purchased Barnegat Books from old Mr. Litzaurer, and she becomes his lunch buddy, drinking buddy and confidant.<\/p>\n

In this adventure Bernie is hired by one Rudyard Whelkin to steal a “limited” edition Kipling poem from one Jesse Arkwright. In the process he gets, drugged, framed for the murder of Madeleine Porlock.\u00a0 Another fun who-dunnit from Lawrence Block. With snappy dialog\u00a0and love of bad puns the reader is entertained from page 1.<\/p>\n

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