There are noble robbers - for example, the glorious Robin Hood, there are gentleman robbers - take, for example, the famous Rocambole or Arsene Lupine, but Bernie Rodenbarr, the hero of the wonderful detective series by Lawrence Block, is an intellectual thief, an expert in literature and art. During the day he sells books in his used bookstore, and at night he turns into a virtuoso thief. And then one day, having entered a hotel room for letters from the “great recluse” Fairbairn, he finds a murdered woman...