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Название книги: The Burglar In The Closet
Автор(ы): Lawrence Block
Жанр: Триллер
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Book 2 in the Bernie Rhodenbarr series
for Mary Pat,who opened the right doorSir, he who would earn his bread writing books must have the assurance of a duke, the wit of a courtier, and the guts of a burglar.– Dr. Samuel Johnson
Chapter One
“ Gramercy Park,” said Miss Henrietta Tyler, “is an oasis in the middle of a cruel sea, a respite from the slings and arrows of which the Bard has warned us.” A sigh escaped her lips, the sort of sigh that follows upon the contemplation of an oasis in the middle of a sea. “Young man,” she said, “I do not know what I would do without this blessed green plot. I simply do not know what I would do.”The blessed green plot is a private park tucked into Manhattan ’s East Twenties. There is a fence around the park, a black wrought-iron fence seven or eight feet high. A locked gate denies access to persons who have no legal right to enter. Only those persons who live in certain buildings surrounding the park and who pay an annual fee toward its maintenance are is