Bernie Rhodenbarr Books in Order

Burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr accepts a stranger's commission to steal an item from a wealthy man's apartment. Police arrive while he's still inside, and a corpse nearby leaves him hunting a murderer to clear his name.

Bernie Rhodenbarr breaks into a dentist's ex-wife's apartment to steal her jewelry, then hides when she returns. Someone murders her and takes the diamonds, leaving Bernie to identify the killer before he takes the blame.

Bernie Rhodenbarr steals a rare Kipling volume, but the handover goes wrong when he's drugged. He wakes beside a dead woman with a gun in his hand and must recover the book while clearing himself.

A valuable coin disappears amid overlapping burglaries at the same brownstone, and a woman is found dead. Bernie Rhodenbarr's own theft puts him under suspicion as he untangles the robberies and the violence surrounding them.

A woman interrupts Bernie Rhodenbarr while he's burglarizing an office and explains that she wants to retrieve work samples after resigning. Bernie agrees to help, unaware of how useful his skills may prove to her.

Bernie Rhodenbarr appraises a wealthy client's library through his legitimate bookselling business, leaving fingerprints throughout the apartment. When the client is murdered, Bernie becomes a suspect and must unravel a scheme involving art and further killings.

Bernie Rhodenbarr's world expands when a cat named Raffles enters his life. This short story follows that arrival and is extracted from the longer mystery The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams, rather than a separate novel.

A steep rent increase sends bookseller Bernie Rhodenbarr back to burglary. Accused of stealing valuable baseball cards, he can't safely explain his whereabouts because the apartment he was actually robbing contained a body locked in the bathroom.

Bernie Rhodenbarr's evenings at a Humphrey Bogart film festival are interrupted by a job stealing documents. When the burglary goes wrong and murder follows, the bookseller must untangle Balkan intrigues while trying to clear his name.

Bernie Rhodenbarr visits a country inn hoping to steal a valuable first edition from its library. A corpse, a snowstorm, and severed contact with the outside world leave him trapped among guests while more deaths follow.

Bernie Rhodenbarr is hired to recover private letters written by a reclusive novelist he admires. Finding a dead agent instead leaves him wanted for murder, forcing the bookseller and burglar to solve a case tangled in literary secrets.

A supermarket tabloid hires Bernie Rhodenbarr to obtain forbidden photographs at Graceland. The unusual assignment takes the bookseller and burglar into Elvis Presley's protected private rooms, requiring a carefully planned intrusion rather than his usual hunt for valuables.

Bernie Rhodenbarr agrees to rob a plastic surgeon as a favor to a friend. An impulsive burglary elsewhere forces him under a bed, and the incident draws him into an increasingly complicated chain of arrests and murders.

An unnamed burglar breaks into an apartment and unexpectedly meets its owner. Their conversation leads to a game of chess, but the arrival of the owner's wife turns an already uncomfortable encounter into something far more dangerous.

Bernie Rhodenbarr visits a collector to sell him a stolen book, only to become involved in a death inside a secured library. The locked room presents a puzzle whose solution may matter as much to Bernie's safety as to the investigation.

Bookseller and burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr returns to stealing with a series of break-ins involving colonial silver, a Fitzgerald manuscript, and a portrait. A dead body complicates the hunt for valuables and leaves Bernie facing another mystery.

Bookseller and burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr appears in this collection of short fiction and related pieces. The volume gathers his shorter adventures with excerpts, articles, and background material exploring how Lawrence Block developed the character.

Bernie Rhodenbarr's bookstore and burglary career seem defeated by modern technology. Then he wakes in a slightly different world where both professions flourish, offering a tempting opportunity to steal a famous diamond and discover what else has changed.