Bernie Rhodenbarr Series – Lawrence Block Free Audiobook

Written by Lawrence Block
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps

1. Burglars Can’t Be Choosers (1977)
The first Bernie Rhodenbarr mystery. Introducing Bernie Rhodenbarr, N.Y.C.’s prince of thieves – who really should have known better! 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. Still all was not lost, there was always a way to work things out…that was before they discovered the body in the bedroom and Bernie decided to leg it. Read by Richard Ferrone.
2. The Burglar in the Closet (1978)
Bernie does a favor for his dentist, only to discover mixing his personal and professional lives can be hazardous to his well-being. As Bernie squirms in the dental chair, Dr. Sheldrake presents a business proposition. He wants Bernie to rob his estranged wife’s apartment while she’s out enjoying the New York City nightlife. Bernie would get her fabulous collection of jewels, and Dr. Sheldrake would only take 20% of the profits. The plan sounds foolproof, so why has Bernie found himself locked in Mrs. Sheldrake√≠s closet? Read by Richard Ferrone.
3. The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling (1979)
Bernie Rhodenbarr can’t resist the lure of a long lost Kipling poem, even if it is locked inside a millionaire’s high security library. So Bernie goes browsing and sure enough he liberates the object in question…but also finds a dead redhead and is caught with the proverbial smoking gun by those boys in blue, who are ready to book Bernie for Murder One! Read by Richard Ferrone.
4. The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza (1980)
Bernie and his dog-grooming partner in crime, Carolyn, are planning the perfect crime. Tonight, they will rob a brownstone while the well-heeled owners are out of town with their vicious watch dog. But when Bernie painstakingly picks the lock, they discover somebody has already emptied the house – except for a valuable coin almost too hot to handle. Read by Richard Ferrone.
5. The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian (1983)
Bernie pulls off a low-risk burglary, only to find himself up against an eccentric kidnapper with a taste for abstract Dutch art. When Bernie is offered the chance to appraise a Manhattan millionaire’s private library, he jumps at the opportunity. After all, how often does he get a chance to check out the holdings of the rich and famous and get paid at the same time? But when he returns later to help himself to some plunder, he finds he’s been framed for some very nasty crimes. Read by Richard Ferrone.
6. The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams (1994)
Bernie is seriously considering retiring from his life of crime, now that his used bookstore is finally turning a small profit. Then his nasty new landlord raises the rent – by $10,000 a month – and Bernie is hard pressed to resist the temptation to supplement his income. But when a dead body turns up, and an invaluable baseball card collection is missing, who will believe that Bernie had nothing to do with it? Read by Richard Ferrone.
7. The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart (1995)
Bernie Rhodenbarr has fallen in love. Not only that, he’s fallen into a real-life version of THE MALTESE FALCON. After a mysterious woman with an Eastern European accent comes into his antiquarian bookshop, he finds himself involved in mystery, intrigue and murder. Block’s reading of his own work is fast paced, and his sarcastic tone is perfect for Bernie. Read by Frank Muller
8. The Burglar in the Library (1997)
What’s Bernie Rhodenbarr doing in the country? He is a New York kind of guy, an urbane antiquarian bookseller who moonlights as a buttoned down burglar. Until an impossibly rare Raymond Chandler novel dedicated to Dashiell Hammett lures him and his buddy, Carolyn, from their own turf to the hills of Western Massachusetts. Before they knows it, they’re smack in the middle of Agatha Christie country and you know what that means. A classic English country house. A guest list awash in eccentricity. And the snow keeps falling. And the bridge is out. And the phone lines are cut. And, one by one, somebody’s killing off the guests. And….shhhh! There’s a burglar in the library! Read by Richard Ferrone
9. The Burglar in the Rye (1999)
Full-time bookstore owner and part-time burglar Bernie tries to do the right thing for a new friend, only to find himself
accused of some terrible wrongs. All Bernie plans to do is steal some letters. A New York City literary agent is auctioning off her personal correspondence with enigmatic writer Gully Fairborn. Gully’s attractive ex-girlfriend has asked Bernie to swipe the letters so she can return them to her old heartthrob. But when Bernie breaks in, the letters are missing, and the literary agent is in bed with no hope of waking up. With the police watching him very closely, Bernie relies on jiggers of rye and Caroline, his lesbian best friend, to sharpen his deductive skills and find the killer. Read by Richard Ferrone
10. The Burglar on the Prowl (2004)
Bernie is recruited by an old friend to burgle the home of a crooked plastic surgeon, removing some off-the-books cash from a wall safe. A simple enough job, but Bernie complicates matters by going “on the prowl” one restless evening‚Äï-randomly cruising for an easy job. While he’s pawing through a woman’s empty apartment, she returns home; Bernie hides hastily, only to overhear an act of violence that draws him into a hunt for the perpetrator and a deepening role in the victim’s life. Read by Nick Sullivan.