Pour Bernie Rhodenbarr, le célèbre libraire-cambrioleur, se glisser dans un appartement n'est jamais un problème. En sortir s'avère parfois plus difficile, surtout quand on reste coincé sous le lit... Véritable festival de situations farfelues et de dialogues à l'emporte-pièce, ce roman est certainement l'un des plus agréablement cinglés de la série Rhodenbarr.

Le cambrioleur en maraude

Sans scrupule, l'agent littéraire Anthea Landau veut vendre sa correspondance avec Gulliver Fairborn, l'écrivain fétiche du grand bouquiniste cambrioleur Bernie Rhodenbarr.
Auteur d'un roman qui a bouleversé l'Amérique des années 60 (on songe à Salinger), Fairborn a toujours voulu garder l'anonymat. C'est dire s'il se sent menacé par les intentions de son agent. Heureusement, Bernie veille au grain et lorsque Alice Cottrell, une ex de Fairborn, lui demande de l'aider à récupérer les lettres, il accepte aussitôt, se rend à l'hôtel où réside Anthea et s'apprête à mener à bien sa tâche lorsque...
Anthea Landau serait-elle donc morte, là, dans son lit ? Arrêté pour un menu cambriolage auquel il n'a pu s'empêcher de procéder en filant, Bernie se voit contraint d'enquêter, et très sérieusement, s'il ne veut pas être inculpé d'un meurtre que, bien sûr, il n'a pas commis.

Les lettres mauves

Vol et volupte

Bernie Rhodenbarr is a personable chap, a good neighbor, a passable poker player. His chosen profession, however, might not sit well with some. Bernie is a burglar, a good one, effortlessly lifting valuables from the not-so-well-protected abodes of well-to-do New Yorkers like a modern-day Robin Hood. (The poor, as Bernie would be the first to tell you, alas, have nothing worth stealing.)He's not perfect, however; he occasionally makes mistakes. Like accepting a paid assignment from a total stranger to retrieve a particular item from a rich man's apartment. Like still being there when the cops arrive. Like having a freshly slain corpse lying in the next room, and no proof that Bernie isn't the killer. Now he's really got his hands full, having to locate the true perpetrator while somehow eluding the police -- a dirty job indeed, but if Bernie doesn't do it, who will?

Burglars Can't Be Choosers

A successful socialite's beautiful wife was raped and murdered in her own home -- and Matt Scudder believes the victim's "grieving" husband was responsible for the outrage. But to prove it, the haunted p.i. must descend into the depths of New York's sex-for-sale underworld, where young lives are commodities to be bought, perverted...and destroyed.

A Dance at the Slaughterhouse - A Matthew Scudder Crime Novel

Cool, fiable et efficace, John Keller est le tueur à gages préféré de tous. L'épouse qui gêne, la star du sport vieillissante, l'associé en affaires véreux, aucune victime ne le fait reculer. Pour lui, il ne s'agit pas de liquider tel ou tel, mais de résoudre un problème, qui, évidemment, n'a rien de personnel. Un contrat après l'autre, Keller sillonne les États-Unis et travaille avec honneur. Mais, aussi bon soit-il, il n'en est pas moins homme et se sent parfois bien seul et en proie au doute. Tuer le psychologue, le chien, la femme... à la longue, c'est un peu lassant et la retraite semble attrayante. Jusqu'au jour où, hélas, il doit se faire une raison : la retraite coûtant cher, il faut gagner de l'argent... et donc recommencer à tuer, tuer et tuer. Intelligence des histoires, écriture d'une malicieuse férocité et humour à la hache, ce nouvel épisode de la saga Keller est tuant d'humanité.

Le blues du tueur à gage

Le couple hollander a été assassiné.
 La cousine de leur fille kristin, lia parkman, demande à scudder d'enquêter sur ce meurtre, alors que la police a pourtant clos le dossier.  scudder vient de perdre sa première femme, celle qu'il a abandonnée du temps oú il buvait.  en outre, un de ses fils paraît se conduire comme lui à cette époque : il boit, est incapable de garder un travail et, plus grave, pique dans la caisse.  un sentiment de culpabilité le gagne, mais il y a plus.
 Lia parkman est jalouse de sa cousine qui va hériter, et devant sa sincérité, scudder est prêt à écouter.  de plus, la disparition des deux meurtriers est trop belle pour qu'on se contente des explications un peu trop convaincantes de la police.

Trompe la mort

After spending her girlhood writing gentle and thoughtful novels of the lesbian experience (SHADOWS, WARM AND WILLING, ENOUGH OF SORROW), Jill Emerson reinvented herself in the early 1970s, just when contemporary literature was experiencing an enormous flowering of sexuality. Even as the whole culture rocked with the sexual revolution, popular fiction echoed this change with a flinging off of censorship and a surge of sexual candor. And Jill wrote three books for Berkley. The first, THIRTY, was in the form of a diary, piling incident upon incident as the diarist, a woman in her thirtieth year, fled her safe suburban marriage and went off in search of her real self. The second, THREESOME, took the form of a collaborative novel in which the three participants in a menage a trois wrote a book together to chronicle their own experience-an experience that continued to evolve as each read what the others had written. A MADWOMAN'S DIARY, you won't be surprised to learn, is a return to the diary form. Once again the diarist is a young woman, seeking a richer and more fulfilling life in and out of bed. But the book owes its storyline to more than Jill Emerson's imagination. Interestingly enough, it grows out of a psychosexual case history previously reported by John Warren Wells. Jill, having read JWW's book in manuscript, couldn't get one particular case out of her head. It was, she thought, a perfect springboard for fiction. And the next thing she knew she was typing away, entirely caught up in the woman's story as it spooled itself out of her typewriter. John Warren Wells was unlikely to object. He and Jill, always friends, occasionally lovers, were comfortable sharing their work, and not infrequently would dedicate their books to each other. And, even if JWW found Jill's decorous plagiarism unsettling, what could he possibly do about it?Both he and Jill are in fact pen names-or, if you prefer, alternate selves-of author Lawrence Block. So they have all the reason in the world to get along. This ebook edition of A MADWOMAN'S DIARY includes as a bonus the opening chapter of the seventh Jill Emerson novel, THE TROUBLE WITH EDEN.

A Madwoman's Diary - The Jill Emerson Novels, #6

Keller is a regular guy. He goes to the movies, works on his stamp collection. Call him for jury duty and he serves without complaint. Then every so often he gets a phone call from White Plains that sends him flying off somewhere to kill a perfect stranger. Keller is a pro and very good at what he does. But the jobs have started to go wrong. The realization is slow coming yet, when it arrives, it is irrefutable: Someone out there is trying to hit the hit man. Keller, God help him, has found his way onto somebody else's hit list.

Le cambrioleur en maraude

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