Bernie Rhodenbarr
Created by Lawrence Block

Okay, so he's not a P.I.!

Slight, mild-mannered New Yorker BERNIE RHODENBARR runs Barnegat Books on East Eleventh Street, between Broadway and University Place and lives in an apartment at Seventy-First and West End Avenue. His best friend is lesbian dog groomer Carolyn Kaiser. He enjoys an occasional good meal, a nice bottle of wine, some good conversation with friends. Oh, and he likes to steal.

A light-hearted series, full of twisty-turny plots and screwy capers from Lawrence Block, creator of the Matt Scudder series. Block is also responsible for the Chip Harrison, and Evan Tanner.

NOVELS

• Burglars Can't Be Choosers (1977)
• The Burglar in the Closet (1978)
• The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling (1979)...Buy this book
• The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza (1980)
• The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian (1983)
• The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams (1994) ...Buy this book
• The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart (1995)... Buy this book
• The Burglar In The Library (1997)
• The Burglar In The Rye (1999)... Buy this book
• The Burglar on the Prowl (2004)..Buy this book

SHORT STORIES

• "Like a Thief in the Night" (May 1983, Cosmopolitan)
• "The Burglar Who Dropped in on Elvis" (April 1990, Playboy)
• "The Burglar Who Smelled Smoke" (Summer/Fall 1997, MHCMM)

FILMS

• BURGLAR
  (1987)
  102 minutes
  VERY loosely based on "The Burglar in the Closet" by Lawrence Block
  Directed by Hugh Wilson
  Starring Whoopie Goldberg as BERNICE RHODENBARR
  Also starring "Bobcat" Goldthwait, G.W. Bailey, Lesley Ann Warren, James Handy, Anne DeSalvo, John Goodman

RELATED LINKS

• Lawrence Block.com
  The official site, maintained for loyal Blockhead Maggie Griffin, irreverent as all hell, and fun as all git out, full of vital info about the author, his books, his short stories, his newsletter, his upcoming projects, his seemingly endless book tour and everything else. And you can also buy autographed copies here (credit cards gleefully accepted). Although, you know what they say -- the rare Block is the unsigned copy.

Report respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.