![]() ![]() We know whose scent was left at the scene of the crime, and we know who kidnapped Chet with the intent that he suffer a horrible fate. I’m not the one to ask, deep thoughts not something I bring to the table.”īecause Chet is the narrator and is possessed of a fine doggy nose, we are privy to clues that poor Bernie, without that skill, is not. “Humans tend to close their eyes when deep thoughts are going on. And he’s fine with that because he leaves the heavy thinking to Bernie, as he shares on page 20: Chet, in fact, shares a lot with us even though, as he is the first to point out, he doesn’t fully understand everything. While Chet doesn’t exactly understand what an aquifer is, he is able to share those concerns without full comprehension. ![]() Chet is the four-legged narrator who allows us to participate, albeit virtually, in how the two intrepid detectives solve the crime of one Wendell Nero, a hydrologist who was found with his throat cut, while working at the remote Dollhouse Canyon.Īlmost all of the Chet and Bernie stories take place in an unspecified location in the western part of the US where water is scarce and Bernie worries about the aquifers. ![]() In “Of Mutts and Men,” the charming man and dog duo of Chet and Bernie are solving crimes together again, courtesy of Spencer Quinn, who writes as fabulous a dog narrative as anyone. ![]()
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