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Mrs. Plansky Goes Rogue
Mrs. Plansky, #2. Mrs. Plansky tries to figure out who blew up the yacht, who kidnapped her son, and just what the heck is going on.
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A tinted privacy windows slid down -- The privacy window in a limo slid down for privacy? Quote:
She ended up making a quick pencil copy of the map -- Why not just take a picture with her phone? Quote:
"...Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees," she said, ...Read:
8/2025
Mrs. Plansky's Revenge: A Novel
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...Read:
4/2024
Of Mutts And Men
Chet and Bernie Mystery #10
The diminishing aquifer seems to be the subject.
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"Whew," Mindy Joe said. "Thought for a second there you were having a stroke."
"That was last week," said Mr. Parsons.Read:
5/2024
Paw And Order
Chet and Bernie Mystery #7
They start out (in the book) in Louisiana, decide to "Go East" to D.C, where Suzie is.
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5/2024
Santa 365
Chet and Bernie Mystery #3.1
A fun quick Christmas tale, with elves. Well, an elf.
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5/2024
Scents And Sensibility
Chet and Bernie Mystery #8. Someone stole a cactus.
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5/2024
Tail Of Vengeance
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.
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5/2024
Tender Is The Bite
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?"Read:
4/2025
The Dog Who Knew Too Much
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?"Read:
5/2024
The Iggy Chronicles, Volume One
Chet and Bernie Mystery #5.1
Oh no, what happened to Iggy, he's disappeared!
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5/2024
The Sound And The Furry
Chet and Bernie Mystery, #6. Chet and Bernie go to hot and humid Louisiana. Suzie pops in at an inopportune moment.
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I made what Bernie calls a mental note. Proust: possible perp, an orange jumpsuit most likely in his future.Quote:
7/2024
Thereby Hangs A Tail
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!
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6/2024
To Fetch A Thief
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? Read:
6/2024
Motorcycle Mutt
Great little story about John and Kookie the Motorcycle Mutt. I've seen them in magazine articles and in On Any Sunday, now in a book telling their story. I read a scanned copy online.
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4/2022
Waiting For Godalming
Detective solves God's murder. Too clever for me, but I enjoyed the "plinth" part. LATER: Read again. Reminds me of Terry Pratchett, this time around.
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6/2004Read:
7/2006
Figgs & Phantoms
Well, that was interesting... Found this one during inventory, hasn\'t been checked out in nearly thirty years. I actually remember the last person who borrowed it! Glad I read it, very nice pictures, but did not think it was fabulous. That is, the second half was too strange for me.
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12/2012
The Tattooed Potato And Other Clues
Art student Dickory Dock goes to work for artist Garson, helping solve several improbable mysteries along with opening the front door for guests, and keeping his paints in order.
Words I Had To Look Up:
taboret (pg. 47) -- A cabinet for storing art materials.
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"Bail's a bit tricky on a murder charge..." (pg. 151)Read:
11/2010
The Westing Game
A interesting little mystery. The will of a rich guy instructs the heirs to discovered who murdered him before one of them can collect.
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4/2004
The Yearling
Young Jody is growing up in quire rural Florida, gets a pet fawn. Sad but pretty inevitable ending.
Words I Had To Look Up:
feist (pg. 2) -- A small mongrel dog.
plenitude (pg. 180) -- An ample amount or quantity; an abundance.
Her brain barrels were empty. (pg. 210) -- Probably a typo...
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4/2013
Tales From A Village School
Stories by a teacher at a country elementary school in England. At least 40 other books by her.
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12/2000
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