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100 1  Block, Lawrence,|eauthor. 
245 14 The burglar who met Fredric Brown /|cLawrence Block. 
264  1 [Place of publication not identified] :|ba Lawrence Block 
       Production,|cc2022. 
300    298 pages ;|c21 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 1  Bernie Rhodenbarr mystery ;|v13 
520    You've got a dream job, running your own cozy secondhand 
       bookstore, complete with Raffles, your caudally challenged
       cat. And you've got another way to make a buck: every once
       in a while you put your conscience on the shelf and let 
       yourself into someone else's residence, and you leave with
       more than you came with. You're a burglar, and you know 
       it's wrong, but you love it-until the 21st Century pulls 
       the rug out from under you. All of a sudden the streets of
       your city are so overpopulated with security cameras and 
       closed-circuit TV that you have to lock yourself in the 
       bathroom to have an undocumented moment. And locks, which 
       used to provide the recreational pleasure of a moderately 
       challenging crossword puzzle, have become genuinely pick-
       proof. Meanwhile, internet booksellers have muscled your 
       legit enterprise into obsolescence; the new breed of 
       customers browse your bookshop, find what they're looking 
       for, then whip out their phones and order their books 
       online. But suppose you wake up one morning in a world 
       just like the one in which you fell asleep--with a couple 
       differences. The Metrocard in your wallet has somehow 
       changed color and morphed into what's called a SubwayCard.
       Puzzling, but you swipe it at the turnstile same as always,
       and it gets you on the subway, so what difference does it 
       make? That's not the only thing that's changed-the 
       Internet's as robust as ever, but nobody seems to be using
       it to sell books. Doors are secured not with pick-proof 
       electronic gizmos, but with good old reliable Rabson locks,
       the kind you can open with your eyes closed. And where did
       all those security cameras go? All of a sudden you've got 
       your life back, your bookshop's packed with eager 
       customers, and how are you gonna find time to steal 
       something? Well, just suppose one of the world's worst 
       human beings has recently acquired one of the world's most
       glamorous gems. When the legendary Kloppmann Diamond is up
       for grabs, what can you possibly do but grab it? And what 
       could possibly go wrong?--|cAdapted from Amazon.com. 
650  0 Rhodenbarr, Bernie (Fictitious character)|vFiction. 
650  0 Thieves|zNew York (State)|zNew York|vFiction. 
650  0 Jewelry theft|vFiction. 
651  0 New York (N.Y.)|vFiction. 
655  7 Detective and mystery fiction.|2lcgft 
655  7 Mystery fiction.|2gsafd 
800 1  Block, Lawrence.|tBernie Rhodenbarr mysteries ;|v13.