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Paw And Order

Quinn, Spencer
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

Quinn, Spencer
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

Quinn, Spencer
Chet and Bernie Mystery #8. Someone stole a cactus.

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5/2024

Tail Of Vengeance

Quinn, Spencer
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

Quinn, Spencer
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!

Quote:

"But screwing with the score? That's changing history." [...] And then what's the point of living right?"

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4/2025

The Dog Who Knew Too Much

Quinn, Spencer
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?"

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5/2024

The Iggy Chronicles, Volume One

Quinn, Spencer
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

Quinn, Spencer
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.

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7/2024

Thereby Hangs A Tail

Quinn, Spencer
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

Quinn, Spencer
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?

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6/2024

Motorcycle Mutt

Radlauer, E. and R. S.
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

Rankin, Robert
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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6/2004

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7/2006

Figgs & Phantoms

Raskin, Ellen
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

Raskin, Ellen
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)

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11/2010

The Westing Game

Raskin, Ellen
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

Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
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

Read, Miss
Stories by a teacher at a country elementary school in England. At least 40 other books by her.

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12/2000

Best Loved Books For Young Readers Volume Two

Readers Digest, ed.
The Scarlet Pimpernel, Tom Sawyer, The Good Earth, and Robin Hood, in condensed form. All great!

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10/2012

Nonfiction Bestsellers

Readers Digest, ed.
Empty promises / Anne Rule -- Fifty acres and a poodle / Jeanne Marie Laskas -- The rescue season / Bob Drury -- Believing it all / Marc Parent -- Who wants to be me? / Regis Philbin. Rule good, Laskas interesting, Drury good, Parent very excellent, Philbin lame. Sorry!

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7/2004

Words In The Dust

Reedy, Trent
A young girl in Afghanistan, who has a cleft lip, goes through a lot of life changes. I thought the story was a little slow at the start, but stuff got real in the second half. I highly recommend reading it!

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5/2014
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