Lawrence Block: The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian (USA 2005)

From the Publisher:
It's not that used bookstore owner and part-time burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr believes the less legal of his two professions is particularly ethical. (It is, however, a rush, and he is very good at it.) He just thinks it's unfair to face a prison term for his legitimate activities. After appraising the worth of a rich man's library -- conveniently leaving his fingerprints everywhere in the process -- Bernie finds he's the cops' prime suspect when his client is murdered.

Someone has framed Bernie Rhodenbarr better than they do it at the Whitney. And if he wants to get out of this corner he's been masterfully painted into, he'll have to get to the bottom of a rather artful -- if multiply murderous -- scam.

Lawrence Block: The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian. A Bernie Rhodenbarr Mystery. Harper Torch, ISBN: 0060731435 (August, 2005), 310 p., $7.50.

Lawrence Block: The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian (UK 2002)

From the Publisher:
Bernie Rhodenbarr - by day he sells books in his Greenwich Village store - by night he's a master of illegal entry. But this time Bernie didn't do the burglary... but one missing painting worth a cool quarter of a million dollars, two corpses and a very clever frame up put him on top of the most wanted list!

'Bernie Rhodenbarr doesn't have to try for hipness, because hip is in the very air he breathes. The Burglar is just adorable. He is cute without being cuddly, he is witty without looking like he's striving for it, and he is rakish without possessing a single mean streak in his lithe and sinuous body. And his language - I suppose we should say Lawrence Block's language - is dry and droll and elegant, like how Dashiell Hammett would write if he was still doing the Thin Man books today' - The Guardian

Lawrence Block: The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian. No Exit Press, ISBN: 1842430645 (July, 2002), 310 p., £6.99.

Lawrence Block: The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian (USA 1999)

From the Publisher:
In his latest caper, Bernie must come up with a priceless Mondrian as ransom for his friend's kidnapped cat -- and finds himself entangled in a web of murder, deception, and unexpected passion...

Lawrence Block: The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian. A Bernie Rhodenbarr Mystery. Signet, ISBN: 0451180763 (December, 1999), 310 p., $23.95.

Lawrence Block: The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian (USA 1998)

From the Publisher:
Lawrence Block's legions of fans have heralded the return of classic Bernie Rhodenbarr books to print. Now, with The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian, readers can complete their Rhodenbarr collection with this, the fifth and final of Dutton's reissues.

As always for the intrepid bookseller-by-day, burglar-by-night, a simple job leads to bigger things. First up, Bernie the bookseller is asked by a Manhattan collector to appraise his impressive library. He does so, and while in the apartment building, makes off with a terrific cache of rare stamps. Then, upon returning home he finds best friend Carolyn Kaiser in tears. Her beloved cat has been abducted, and the ransom is a painting by Mondrian, currently on display in a museum and nearly impossible to steal. Nearly. But then Bernie remembers seeing another Mondrian hanging somewhere... in the book collector's apartment. Before too long, the painting is gone, a body turns up and the police are knocking on Bernie's door. Guess who their number one suspect is?

Lawrence Block: The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian. A Bernie Rhodenbarr Mystery. Dutton, ISBN: 052594382X (December, 1998), 224 p., $23.95.

Lawrence Block: The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian (UK 1996)

From the Publisher:
Bernie Rhodenbarr - by day he sells books in his Greenwich Village store - by night he's a master of illegal entry. But this time Bernie didn't do the burglary... but one missing painting worth a cool quarter of a million dollars, two corpses and a very clever frame up put him on top of the most wanted list!

The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian is the fifth in the series of Bernie Rhodenbarr titles and is being published simultaneously with the fourth title The Burglar Wh Studied Spinoza. The other three titles, The Burglar the Closet, The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling and Burglars Can't Be Choosers are all available from No Exit Press.

Lawrence Block: The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian. No Exit Press, ISBN: 0948353635 (October, 1996), 255 p., £4.99.

Lawrence Block: The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian (USA 1986)

From the Publisher:
"A SERIES THAT CONTINUES TO DELIGHT... BLACK HUMOR AND A DEFT SENSE OF MANIC INTENSITY... BLOCK IS WHAT DONALD WESTLAKE WOULD BE IF WESTLAKE COULD REMAI EVEN A TOUCH OF SANITY." - Baltimore Evening Sun

LAWRENCE BLOCK
THE BURGLAR WHO PAINTED LIKE MONDRIAN
By day, he sells books in his Greenwich Village store - by night, he's a master of illegal entry. This time, Bernie didn't do the burglary but one painting worth a quarter of a million, two corpses, and a very clever frame-up put him on the most-wanted list!

"BERNIE IS THE HEIFETZ OF THE PICKLOCK... Amusing enough to give Donald Westlake a run for his money... The writing is staccato, very New York, full of deft thrusts. A GOOD TIME IS GUARANTEED." - Newgate Callendar, The New York Times Book Review
"Block's dialogue crackles like an overheard conversation in a New York bar." Wasington Post Book World

Lawrence Block: The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian. Pocket Books, ISBN: 067149581X (February, 1986), 253 p., $3.50.

Lawrence Block: The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian (USA 1983)

From the Publisher:
"God help me, I'm a born thief, the urge to burgle bred in my bones. How could they ever rehabilitate me? Can you teach a fish to leave off swimming, a bird to renounce flight?"

Thus confesses Bernie Rhodenbarr, the "Heifetz of the picklock" (New York Times Book Review), who goes a-burgling again in this delicious new caper about art, artistry and abstraction-abstraction, that is, of a famous and valuable painting; and artistry of a special light-fingered kind. When Bernie burgles, things happen: Rare stamps get stolen. A cat gets kidnapped. A beautiful woman finds burglary arousing. And people get killed. On hand are Bernie's poodle-grooming henchperson, a woman who cuts off the cat's whiskers, an artist who hates museums, a lawyer who lawyers while running through Central Park in his underwear.

Lawrence Block pulls off the slickest, most complex Bernie Rhodenbarr to date - as neat, as artistic as... well, a Mondrian.

Lawrence Block: The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian. Arbor House, ISBN: 0877955174 (September, 1983), 253 p., $14.50.