Bank Shot
  • Published:
    Apr-1972 (Hardcover)
    1987 (Paperback)
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    Suspense
  • Pages:
    189
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"What the hell is it?" Dortmunder said.
"It's a trailer," Kelp said. "What they call a mobile home. Didn't you ever see that kind of thing before?"
"But what the hell is it?"
"It's the bank," Kelp said.

The bank has a tough safe, seven guards, and a police station seven blocks away. An ordinary gang of robbers would turn up their noses at this sort of heist, even if the bank is temporarily housed in a trailer in an otherwise vacant lot.

But John A. Dortmunder has been blessed (or cursed) with imagination. With the aid of Kelp's nephew (a youthful ex-G-man who collects old detective pulps and dreams of a life of crime), Dortmunder and his inept cohorts plan to heist a truck, hook up the trailer, and make off with the bank, the whole bank, and (with luck) nothing but the bank.
But nothing is ever that simple...
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EDITIONS
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    •  
    • Jun-1987
    • Warner
    • Mass Market Paperback
    • ISBN: 0445406100
    • ISBN13: 9780445406100
    •  
    • Jun-1987
    • Mysterious Press
    • Mass Market Paperback
    • ISBN: 0445408839
    • ISBN13: 9780445408838
    •  
    • Sep-2021
    • Mysterious Press
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1504068114
    • ISBN13: 9781504068116
    • First Edition
    • Apr-1972
    • Simon & Schuster
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0671211803
    • ISBN13: 9780671211806
    •  
    • Oct-2011
    • Mysterious Press
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1453229213
    • ISBN13: 9781453229217
    •  
    • Oct-2011
    • Mysterious Press
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Aug-2016
    • Brilliance Audio
    • MP3 CD
    • ISBN: 1522688307
    • ISBN13: 9781522688303



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