title: Uncle John's True Crime: A Classic Collection of Crooks, Cops, and Capers
author:  Bathroom Readers' Institute 
description: <B>The Bathroom Readers&#39; Institute</B> is a tight-knit group of loyal and skilled writers, researchers, and editors who have been working as a team for years. The BRI understands the habits of a very special market&mdash;Throne Sitters&mdash;and devotes itself to providing amazing facts and conversation pieces.
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  THE BURGLAR WHO STUDIED SPINOZA
  
  LAWRENCE BLOCK
  
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  For Caryl Carnow
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Contents
  
  [ Chapter One](index_split_004.html#filepos7121)
  
  Around five-thirty I put down the book I’d been reading…
  
  [ Chapter Two](index_split_005.html#filepos24032)
  
  Illegal entry is a good deal less suspicious beneath the…
  
  [ Chapter Three](index_split_006.html#filepos49481)
  
  Abel Crowe lived in one of those towering prewar apartment…
  
  [ Chapter Four](index_split_007.html#filepos68147)
  
  He didn’t say anything else until he’d looked long and…
  
  [ Chapter Five](index_split_008.html#filepos90332)
  
  I’m not entirely sure why I wound up spending what…
  
  [ Chapter Six](index_split_009.html#filepos105276)
  
  Herbert and Wanda Colcannon had not stayed in Pennsylvania overnight…
  
  [ Chapter Seven](index_split_010.html#filepos125375)
  
  Carolyn and I usually have lunch together. Mondays and Wednesdays…
  
  [ Chapter Eight](index_split_011.html#