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Название книги: The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams
Автор(ы): Lawrence Block
Жанр: Иронический детектив
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/The-Burglar-Who-Traded-Ted-Williams-184046.html
This one’s for all the people who’vecome up to me over the past ten yearsto ask me if I was ever going to writeanother book about Bernie. If half ofyou buy it, I’ll be rich.It’s also for Sue Grafton, a veryclassy lady indeed. And for Steve King,who wanted a book about cats.And it’s for Lynne. You want to knowa secret? They’re all for Lynne….
CHAPTER One
“Not a bad-looking Burglar,” he said. “I don’t suppose you’d happen to have a decent Alibi?”I didn’t hear the italics. They’re present not to indicate vocal stress but to show that they were titles, or at least truncated titles. “A” Is for Alibi and “B” Is for Burglar, those were the books in question, and he had just laid a copy of the latter volume on the counter in front of me, which might have given me a clue. But it didn’t, and I didn’t hear the italics. What I heard was a stocky fellow with a gruff voice calling me a burglar, albeit a not-bad-looking one, and asking if I had an alibi, and I have to tell
Название книги: The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams
Автор(ы): Lawrence Block
Жанр: Иронический детектив
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/The-Burglar-Who-Traded-Ted-Williams-184046.html
This one’s for all the people who’vecome up to me over the past ten yearsto ask me if I was ever going to writeanother book about Bernie. If half ofyou buy it, I’ll be rich.It’s also for Sue Grafton, a veryclassy lady indeed. And for Steve King,who wanted a book about cats.And it’s for Lynne. You want to knowa secret? They’re all for Lynne….
CHAPTER One
“Not a bad-looking Burglar,” he said. “I don’t suppose you’d happen to have a decent Alibi?”I didn’t hear the italics. They’re present not to indicate vocal stress but to show that they were titles, or at least truncated titles. “A” Is for Alibi and “B” Is for Burglar, those were the books in question, and he had just laid a copy of the latter volume on the counter in front of me, which might have given me a clue. But it didn’t, and I didn’t hear the italics. What I heard was a stocky fellow with a gruff voice calling me a burglar, albeit a not-bad-looking one, and asking if I had an alibi, and I have to tell
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