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Peanut …

… the only elephant character I’ve ever attempted, is found in To Fetch A Thief. Here’s what an Amazon Vine Voice reviewer (not sure what that is, exactly) had to say a few days ago:

Oh, I Love This Series!! Quinn (a pseudonym of Peter Abrahams)does such an excellent job with relating the entire mystery from Chet the Jet’s point-of-view. And with such humour, too! Not to mention the way he really nails the suspense… I read the book in just about one sitting and stayed up way too late to make sure that everything ended the way I wanted it to (and it did!). Peanut the Elephant was such a fun character!

The Daily Kos and …

To Fetch A Thief. Nice to see it on this list.

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2019/11/6/1896884/-Bookflurries-Bookchat-Thrillers-and-Chillers

Beginnings

Sundays we do beginnings, taking a look at the start of a Peter Abrahams novel, including those written under the Spencer Quinn moniker (and we get to write “moniker”! – a word of uncertain derivation and a funny sound. Does anything rhyme with it?) Elephants came up in conversation recently, reminding me of To Fetch A Thief. Here’s how it begins:

“I smell trouble,” Bernie said.

Better stop right there.

Beginnings

On Sundays we often do beginnings of a Peter Abrahams novel including those written under the Spencer Quinn byline. Here’s TO FETCH A THIEF, a Chet and Bernie novel in which Peanut the elephant plays a lumber-on role. (One of the great pleasures of that book tour was meeting the elephant keeper from a zoo who said, “You got Peanut right.”)

“I smell trouble,” Bernie said.

Better stop right there. Not that I doubt Bernie. The truth is I believe everything he says. And he has a nice big nose for a human. But what’s that saying? Not much.

It’s a fact that trouble has a smell – human trouble especially, sour and penetrating – but Bernie had never smelled trouble before, or if so he hadn’t mentioned it, and Bernie mentioned all kinds of things to me. We’re partners in the Little Detective Agency, me and Bernie, Bernie’s last name being Little. I’m Chet, pure and simple.