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It would take a miracle to keep Dortmunder out of jail. Though he cased the electronics store perfectly, the cops surprised him, turning up in the alley just as he was walking out the back door, a television in each hand. Already a two-time loser, without divine intervention he faces a long stretch inside. Then God sends J. Radcliffe Stonewiler, a celebrity lawyer who gets Dortmunder off with hardly any effort at all. Stonewiler was sent by Arnold Chauncey, an art lover with a cash-flow problem. He asks the thief to break into his house and make off with a valuable painting in exchange for a quarter of the insurance money.

In and out of prison for over 40 years, Seymour Eriksson is officially "London’s most unsuccessful criminal". So why can’t Carlyle keep him off the streets for more than five minutes - and how can he stop hack Bernie Gilmore from naming and shaming him in his tabloid rag? Worried about his own personal profile, Carlyle is slow to notice several alarming cases involving missing schoolgirls.

It is 1962. Daisy Lane's man, Kenny, is in jail for robbery, leaving Daisy to run the couple's café down in Gosport, Hampshire. Daisy lives above the café and shares the house with Kenny's older brother, Eddie: a handsome, resourceful villain with a streak of viciousness that leads him to commit acts of terrifying violence to get his way. But Eddie has a weakness and it's called "Daisy". He loves his brother's wife; Kenny's not around, and Eddie always gets what he wants.

Long-retired cop Fitch Henry Haut is terminally ill and living out his final years alone. As he sits in his favorite diner enjoying the meatloaf special, he watches as a young girl steps in and spots two rough-looking men at the counter. When they see her, she runs off and they give chase.

En un tiempo ignoto (mayo de 2007) y en un Madrid terrorífico, roto en zanjas por las excavadoras y con la población presa del pánico por la gripe aviar, el protagonista de esta historia vaga de cuerpo en cuerpo intentando averiguar su propia identidad, intentando no enamorarse de una muchacha hacia la que sus distintos cuerpos lo llevan, intentando ver una película en la que sorprendentemente se hallan las claves de lo que le ocurre e intentando que no suceda un crimen del que ya ha sido testigo y del que conoce casi todo: el asesino, el arma homicida, el día y la hora. Todo menos la víctima....