Light humourous crime fiction, by another old pro Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America. Block has written a whole series of novels about this character, Bernie Rhodenbarr, a professional burglar in New York City. This is the 3rd in the series, and Bernie has acquired a second hand book store, which I believe he retains in later stories. There is a murder mystery plot and a lot of humourous observation and general facetiousness. I find it reasonably entertaining light reading. Not as good as Donald E. Westlake's comparable stuff but still not bad. I think Westlake was there first. (There are references in this book to Westlake's Richard Stark novels.)
This is the first book I've read on my new Kindle and it worked pretty well. The pages are easy to read and easy to turn and the device is a handy size and shape. It's not at all like reading a text file on a computer. The download of the book from Amazon's Kindle Store was quick and easy as well.
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