The long-awaited eleventh novel in the Bernie Rhodenbarr series.
The long-awaited eleventh novel in the Bernie Rhodenbarr series.
Everybody's favourite burglar returns in an eleventh adventure that finds him and his lesbian sidekick Carolyn Kaiser breaking into houses, apartments, and even a museum, in a madcap adventure replete with American Colonial silver, an F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscript, a priceless portrait, and a remarkable array of buttons.
And, wouldn't you know it, there's a dead body, all stretched out on a Trent Barling carpet . . .
A crisp and assured read, sumptuously funny but the overriding feeling I'm left with after turning over the final page - gratification. It made me smile throughout and from a book, you can't ask any more than that. A wonderful and warm read, a great introduction, albeit a late one, to a series that I now have no option other than to begin at the beginning!
