β Scribed by Block, Lawrence
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Like a Thief in the Night is a Bernie Rhodenbarr short story thats probably entirely unknown to most of Bernies fans. Not only does it lack the word burglar in the title, but Bernies not the storys viewpoint character. Its told entirely through the spirited and enterprising young woman whose fate it is to walk in on our lad in mid-job, all in a near-empty office building in the middle of the night. That could be pretty frightening, but hey, its Bernie. Shes got nothing to be afraid of, and neither do we.
The story originated in the late 70s, commissioned by a womens magazine called Savvy, with a suite of offices in the huge old Port Authority building on Ninth Avenue in Chelsea. A couple of editors decided it was an intimidating location late at night, and thought it would be a good setting for a short story, even though they hadnt yet run any fiction. One of them knew my work, and they got in touch.
I wrote the story, and they loved it and paid a decent price for it, but they never seemed to find room for it in an issue of the magazine. They kept scheduling it and changing their minds, and it seems to me they changed editors in the bargain, and after a couple of years of this they went out of business. Which was a pity, because it was an interesting publication, except for the fictionof which, alas, there wasnt any. My agent got the story back, and I believe he sent it over to Cosmopolitan, and no end of online sources now assure me that it ran in that magazines May 1983 issue.
And maybe it did. Except I dont have a copy of the magazine, and dont think I ever saw one. Ive seen Cosmos May 1983 cover, its not hard to find online, and they blurbed eight or nine major pieces on it, and my story is not among them. Well, really, what difference does it make? It either ran there or it didnt, and its been in short story collections of mine since, including my omnibus, Enough Rope. I had to read it closely in order to format the scanned story for ePublication, and I was pleased to find that I like it a lot. I can only hope, Dear Reader, that it works as well for you.
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