Burglars Can't be Choosers (Paperback)

When the mysterious pear shaped man with a lot of uncomfortably accurate information about Bernie and his career offered him five big ones to liberate a blue leather box - unopened - from an East Side apartment, it would have been a good time to plead a previous engagement..but times were tough. Everything was straightforward - the box was where it should have been but before the liberation took place, two men in blue coats turned up. Bernie Rhodenbarr, NYC's prince of thieves is off like shot but not for too long.