![–Bruce Tierney, BookPage on <em>King Maybe</em>](https://sohopress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/blog-00.png)
There was a time when I thought that Lawrence Block’s character Bernie Rhodenbarr was the definitive fictional housebreaker, but that title has been surrendered by unanimous decision (mine) to Timothy Hallinan’s cat burglar extraordinaire, Junior Bender.