By Lawrence Block
It is not that used book shop proprietor and part-time burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr believes the fewer criminal of his professions is especially moral. (It is, in spite of the fact that, a hurry, and he's first-class at it.) He simply thinks it really is unfair to stand a jail time period for his valid actions. After appraising the value of a wealthy man's library -- with ease leaving his fingerprints all around the method -- Bernie unearths he is the police officers' top suspect whilst his buyer is murdered. a person has framed Bernie Rhodenbarr greater than they do it on the Whitney. And if he desires to get out of this nook he is been masterfully painted into, he will need to unravel a slightly crafty -- if multiply murderous -- rip-off.
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Not that it mattered, since I’d already given my name, and— The elevator arrived. As I stepped into the car I turned toward Onderdonk’s closed door. “ ’Night now,” I said. ” The door closed, the car descended. I leaned back against its wood paneling and crossed my legs at the ankle. “Long day,” I said. “Just starting for me,” the operator said. I tried to forget about the camera overhead. It was like trying to forget that you’ve got your left foot in a bucket of ice water. I couldn’t look at it and I couldn’t suppress the urge to look at it, and THE BURGLAR WHO PAINTED LIKE MONDRIAN 39 I did a lot of elaborate yawning.
And what a feeling it was! I read once of a woman who spent every free moment at Coney Is land, riding the big roller coaster over and over and over. Evidently she got the thrill from that cu rious pastime that I get whenever I let myself into another person’s place of residence. That chargedup sensation, that fire-in-the-blood, every-cellalive feeling. I’ve had it ever since I first broke into a neighbor’s house in my early teens, and all the in tervening years, all the crimes and all the punish ments, have not dulled or dimmed it in the slightest.
But it was no more than a guess and I might be miles off in either direction. In twenty-four hours’ time I’d know a good deal more. By then all of the stamps would be off their pages and out of their mounts, sorted by sets and tucked into little glassine envelopes, their prices checked in last year’s Scott catalog, which was the most recent copy to have turned up at the store. ) Then Appling’s pages and mounts would go down the incinerator, along with any stamps that might have markings rendering them specifically identifiable.