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Author
Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
1985
Physical Desc
244 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dortmunder agrees to do a dangerous favor for a gang of nuns It was supposed to be a simple caviar heist. Dortmunder is almost in the building when the alarm sounds, forcing him up the fire escape and onto the roof. He leaps onto the next building, smashing his ankle and landing in the den of the worst kind of creature he can imagine: nuns. Although decades removed from his Catholic orphanage, Dortmunder still trembles before the sisters' habits....
Author
Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
3428p. 25cm.
Language
English
Description
This time out John Dortmunder and his merry band of crooks return to the scene of the crime world in an attempt to steal a fleet of automobiles that would leave the Sultan of Brunei blushing. The mark is Monroe Hall, corrupt CEO of a now defunct conglomerate, who spent more of his company's money on himself than the boys at Enron and WorldCom combined. Having escaped prosecution, Hall is holed up on his massive Pennsylvania farm and Dortmunder, as...
Author
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
1976
Language
English
Description
Specialist in the scam, the con, and the rip-off, Jerry Manelli is running around New York hot on the trail of a priest a thousand-year-old, two-foot-tall, ugly, misshapen, dancing Aztec priest made of solid gold, with eyes of pure emeralds, worth a million dollars. Somebody stole it from its museum home in South America and smuggled it through U. S. Customs in a shipment of plastic imitations. But the wrong one got delivered, and the million dollar...