Mystery
Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling, The
1979·224 pages
A bookseller-thief steals a rare Kipling volume and wakes framed for murder in this light, comic New York mystery.
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A bookseller-thief steals a rare Kipling volume and wakes framed for murder in this light, comic New York mystery.
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Bookseller and thief Bernie Rhodenbarr can’t resist the lure of a long lost Kipling poem, even if it is locked inside a millionaire’s 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...
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Sexual content
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Violence & gore
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Murder of a woman; framing with a gun; crime violence without gore
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Substance use
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Protagonist is drugged during a handoff; incidental social drinking likely
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Recurring lesbian best friend who runs the neighboring dog salon
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Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic or witchcraft present
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Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Woman murdered off-page; protagonist framed for the killing
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