I’ve seen Cosmo’s May 1983 cover, it’s not hard to find online, and they blurbed eight or nine major pieces on it, and my story is not among them. Except I don’t have a copy of the magazine, and don’t think I ever saw one. My agent got the story back, and I believe he sent it over to Cosmopolitan, and no end of online sources now assure me that it ran in that magazine’s May 1983 issue.Īnd maybe it did. Which was a pity, because it was an interesting publication, except for the fiction-of which, alas, there wasn’t any. They kept scheduling it and changing their minds, and it seems to me they changed editors in the bargain, and after a couple of years of this they went out of business. I wrote the story, and they loved it and paid a decent price for it, but they never seemed to find room for it in an issue of the magazine. One of them knew my work, and they got in touch. A couple of editors decided it was an intimidating location late at night, and thought it would be a good setting for a short story, even though they hadn’t yet run any fiction. The story originated in the late 70s, commissioned by a women’s magazine called Savvy, with a suite of offices in the huge old Port Authority building on Ninth Avenue in Chelsea. She’s got nothing to be afraid of, and neither do we. That could be pretty frightening, but hey, it’s Bernie. It’s told entirely through the spirited and enterprising young woman whose fate it is to walk in on our lad in mid-job, all in a near-empty office building in the middle of the night. Not only does it lack the word burglar in the title, but Bernie’s not the story’s viewpoint character. “Like a Thief in the Night” is a Bernie Rhodenbarr short story that’s probably entirely unknown to most of Bernie’s fans.
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