Chapter 1 The woman looked up at Bernie. Something about her face, turned up like that, made an impression on him. I can feel those impressions happening in Bernie, but what they are exactly is something I find out later or not at all. “No, it was a good joke,” she said, agreeing with me.…
An observation I had in my years working for Sports Illustrated: athletes and the heroes of crime fiction have much in common, but most simply this—a ruthless clarity of purpose and an ability to perform at their best when the action reaches its climax. Below I’ve assembled a football team populated by great characters from…
A Fistful of Collars is the fifth in the Chet and Bernie canine mystery series by Spencer Quinn, in which the dog deservedly takes top billing (available September 11, 2012). Private eye Bernie Little never had a better friend than Chet. Man’s best friend, to coin a phrase. Yep, Chet’s a dog—a tag-wearing, tail-wagging member…
During a recent stay at the Wyndham Garden Hotel in Boca Raton, Florida, I partook of the resident Loan Library. There’s clearly a taste for crime in Boca; of the thirty-two books on the shelf, a dead body or two figures in at least twenty-one of them—including Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country, which would…
