Ever since The Burglar on the Prowl climbed the bestseller lists in 2004 fans have been clamoring for a new book featuring the lighthearted and lightfingered Bernie Rhodenbarr. Now everybody's favorite burglar returns in an eleventh adventure that finds him and his lesbian sidekick Carolyn Kaiser breaking into houses apartments and even a museum in a madcap adventure replete with American Colonial silver an F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscript a priceless portrait and a remarkable array of buttons. And wouldn't you know it there's a dead body all stretched out on a Trent Barling carpet ...