柏尼·羅登拔
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柏尼·羅登拔(Bernie Rhodenbarr)，是勞倫斯·卜洛克筆下雅賊系列推理小說內的虛構主角。首次登場於1977年出版的別無選擇的賊；直到2004年，他總共在卜洛克的十本小說裡出場過，也出現在兩篇短篇故事裡( The Burglar Who Dropped In On Elvis 和 The Burglar Who Smelled Smoke)。
角色
柏尼·羅登拔是一位紐約市的小偷，擅長於開鎖和闖空門，並且為這兩件事的快感而上癮。他曾在年少時入獄服刑，從那之後，他便極力避免再次被抓。
柏尼的偷竊行動通常是經過縝密的計劃並確實執行，從目標剛開始的監視以及之後的逃脫路線無一不漏。然而，在這些偷竊行動中，柏尼總是會遇到一具屍體，而且通常是在警方開始調查之前。因此在一本標準的柏尼·羅登拔小說裡，柏尼總是承擔著破解謀殺案的責任以便回復自己的名譽。他的調查不只查詢死者的人際關係，也去拜訪(有時牽涉到非法入侵)他們的家中確認(偶爾隱藏)證據。
在喜歡引用吉卜齡的賊的開始，柏尼成為巴尼嘉書店(一家格林威治村的二手書店)
Beginning with The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling, Bernie has become the owner / operator of Barnegat Books, a used bookstore in Greenwich Village that he purchased from its retiring owner and partially funds through the take from his occasional burglary activities. Prior to the novel The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams (to explain a publishing hiatus in the series) it was revealed that the bookstore was actually making a profit, before its building's landlord changed and the new owner raised the rent catastrophically. Bernie has since managed to buy the building, and now uses his burglary take to pay off his mortgage. The bookstore also houses a cat, a gift from Bernie's friend Carolyn whom Bernie named Raffles after the fictional character.
According to Lawrence Block, one of the reasons Bernie operates the bookstore was to meet girls. Bernie enjoys a healthy sex life, sleeping with at least one female character per novel. Bernie does not appear to have a steady girlfriend.
He has also developed a connoisseur's liking for Scotch whiskey, particularly single-malt brands. However, if he has a heist planned he will drink no alcohol in the hours prior to its execution, preferring to drink Perrier instead.
朋友與夥伴
Carolyn Kaiser is Bernie's best friend and occasional partner in crime. An unabashed lesbian, she operates a pet-grooming salon called The Poodle Factory near Bernie's bookstore. The two meet over drinks on a regular basis, discussing their work and love lives; their conversations enable writer Block to display his wit and weakness for puns and authors. Carolyn has a set of keys to Bernie's apartment and bookstore in case of an emergency. Her short height is the basis for the occasional joke (which is not appreciated) from ...
雷·柯希曼(Ray Kirschmann) is a plainclothes detective on the New York police force, and is described by Bernie as "the best cop money can buy," since Ray will allow himself to be bribed to overlook Bernie's occasional illegal activities. However, Ray does draw the line at homicide, and is usually present at the climax of each novel when the murderer is finally revealed. A married, middle-aged man, Ray's appearance is normally rumpled (despite having expensive clothes) and he tends to talk in a less-educated manner than Bernie. He and Carolyn are not friendly.
Wally Hemphill is Bernie's lawyer. The two initially met as jogging enthusiasts when Bernie took up the activity, and Bernie called him to bail him out of prison when he'd learned his previous lawyer had died. Wally has helped Bernie by negotiating the sale of the Barnegat Books building to him, and has also taken up martial arts, which came in handy in a later novel when he apprehended an escaping suspect.
Marty Gilmartin is a wealthy businessman and theatre patron who met Bernie shortly after the latter attempted to burgle his home. He occasionally helps Bernie out by identifying potential victims for him, usually rich people with a cash flow problem who would like to collect on their home insurance policy by reporting a burglary.
出現在其他媒體中的柏尼·羅登拔
The second novel in the series, The Burglar In The Closet, was subsequently adapted into the film Burglar, in which Bernie - a white male - was portrayed by Whoopi Goldberg (renamed "Bernice"), although Bruce Willis had originally been offered the role. Block was displeased by the adaptation (he describes watching an in-flight movie, with no sound, and not recognising it as being based on his novel until the credits rolled), and has written the subsequent novels in such a way as to render them unfilmable.