{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Bookseller and thief Bernie Rhodenbarr can\u2019t resist the lure of a long lost Kipling poem, even if it is locked inside a millionaire\u2019s high security library. So Bernie goes browsing and sure enough he liberates the object in question . . . but also finds a dead redhead and is caught with the proverbial smoking gun by those boys in blue, who are ready to book Bernie for Murder One!Bernie Rhodenbarr has gone legit -- almost -- as the new owner of a used bookstore in New York's Greenwich Village. Of course, dusty old tomes don't always turn a profit, so to make ends meet, Bernie's forced, on occasion, to indulge in his previous occupation: burglary. Besides which, he likes it.Now a collector is offering Bernie an opportunity to combine his twin passions by stealing a very rare and very bad book-length poem from a rich man's library.The heist goes off without a hitch. The delivery of the ill-gotten volume, however, is a different story. Drugged by the client's female go-between, Bernie wakes up in her apartment to find the book gone, the lady dead, a smoking gun in his hand, and the cops at the door. And suddenly he's got to extricate himself from a rather sticky real-life murder mystery and find a killer -- before he's booked for Murder One."}, "covers": [33188, 4394292, 722401, 8461792], "key": "/works/OL48326W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL21255A"}}], "title": "Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling, The", "subjects": ["Fiction", "Mystery", "Bernie Rhodenbarr (Fictitious character)", "Thieves", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general", "Large type books", "Rhodenbarr, bernie (fictitious character), fiction", "Criminals, fiction", "New york (n.y.), fiction", "New england, fiction", "Crime, fiction", "Booksellers and bookselling, fiction", "Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subject_places": ["New York (N.Y.)"], "latest_revision": 9, "revision": 9, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-15T11:55:34.777519"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-04-17T02:06:05.675057"}}