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Name: The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams

Author: Lawrence Block
Year: 1994
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Humor, Mystery, Fiction, Crime

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ISBNs:
9780060731441
0060731443

Bernie Rhodenbarr is actually trying to earn an honest living. It's been an entire year since he's entered anyone's abode illegally to help himself to their valuables. But now an unscrupulous landlord's threat to increase Bernie's rent by 1,000% is driving the bookseller and reformed burglar back to a life of crime -- though, in all fairness, it's a very short trip. And when the cops wrongly accuse him of stealing a priceless collection of baseball cards, Bernie's stuck with a worthless alibi since he was busy burgling a different apartment at the time . . . one that happened to contain a dead body locked inside a bathroom.

So Bernie has a dilemma. He can trade a burglary charge for a murder rap. Or he can shuffle all the cards himself and try to find the joker in the deck -- someone, perhaps, who believes that homicide is the real Great American Pastime.

This book is part of the "Bernie Rhodenbarr" series. Here are some other books from this series:

"The Burglar on the Prowl"
First published in 2001
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"The Burglar in the Rye"
First published in 1998
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"The Burglar In the Library"
First published in 1997
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"The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart"
First published in 1995
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"The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian"
First published in 1983
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"The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza"
First published in 1980
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"The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling"
First published in 1979
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"The Burglar in the Closet"
First published in 1978
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"Burglars Can't be Choosers"
First published in 1977
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"The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons"
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