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Gulliver Fairborn's novel, Nobody's Baby , changed Bernie Rhodenbarr's life. And now pretty Alice Cottrell, Fairborn's one-time paramour, wants the bookselling, book-loving burglar to break into a room in New York's teeth-achingly charming Paddington Hotel and purloin some of the writer's very personal letters before an unscrupulous agent can sell them. Here's an opportunity to use his unique talents in the service of the revered, famously reclusive author. But when Bernie gets there, the agent is dead . . . and Bernie's wanted for murder. (He really hates when that happens!) Perhaps it's karmic payback; Bernie did help himself to a ruby necklace on his way out. (But it was lying there. And he is a burglar.) Now he's in even hotter water. And he'll need to use every trick in the book—maybe going so far as to entice the hermitic Fairborn himself out of seclusion—to bring this increasingly twisted plot to a satisfying denouement.

劳伦斯•布洛克，享誉世界的美国侦探小说大师，当代硬汉派侦探小说最杰出的代表。他的小说不仅在美国备受青睐，而且跨越了大西洋，完全征服了自诩为侦探小说故乡的欧洲。

侦探小说界最重要的两个奖项，爱伦•坡奖的终身成就奖和钻石匕首奖均肯定了劳伦斯的大师地位。此外，他曾三次获爱伦•坡奖，两获马耳他之鹰奖，四获夏姆奖(后两个奖项都是重要的硬汉派侦探小说奖项)。