Chet and Bernie Mystery, #12. Sort of a Christmas story, at least it takes place during the season. Chet and Bernie look for a missing friend, and find out about artwork. Good story!
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"I am like an educated man, in some ways," Bernie told him. "What's this false penitent shit?"
Spencer Quinn is a pseudonym of Peter Abrahams! A widow gets all her money ripped off over the telephone (one of those scams) so she travels to Romania to get it back. I enjoyed it very much!
I chatted on the internet with a girl in Romania once, you don't suppose...
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"This may sound harebrained," she began.
He interrupted. "That's one expression I've never understood."
"H-A-R-E," said Mrs. Plansky. "Like bunny rabbit."
Max smacked his forehead... "What an idiot!" he said...
Chet and Bernie Mystery #0.3/#5.2
The Little Detective Agency is reluctantly get hired to get the goods on a possibly cheating boyfriend. At least, that is where it starts out.
Chet and Bernie Mystery, #11. We meet Trixie, who looks a lot like Chet. Also Weatherly, the police officer. I forget the plot, something about a golf club, maybe? And a politician? I don't know. Fun story!
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"But screwing with the score? That's changing history." [...] And then what's the point of living right?"
Chet and Bernie Mystery #4. Chet and Bernie look for a boy who went missing from a camp at Big Bear, but not THAT Big Bear!
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"All you have to do to make this go away forever"--she held up the device--"is your job."
"My job?" said the judge.
"Making sure that justice happens," Suzie said. "Didn't that come up in law school?"
Chet and Bernie Mystery, #2. The Little Detective Agency is hired to protect a dog show contestant. Then fired. Then hired again. It's all very confusing!
Chet and Bernie Mystery, #3. The boys end up in Mexico again (or maybe not again, maybe yet? Depends what order you are reading 'em in?) looking for a missing elephant.
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We've still got Crock's AR-15, locked in the safe with all our other guns. -- This would be the safe behind the picture of Niagara Falls? Just how large is this safe, anyway?