Who says all road trips involve only humans? Chet's journey
home is remarkable.
In the third book in the brilliant New York Times
bestselling series featuring a lovable and wise dog
narrator, Chet and Bernie go under the big top to solve the
most unlikely missing persons (and animals!) case
ever.
βWe were outnumbered, some big number against two. When it
comes to
numbers, two is as far as I go, but itβs enough, in my
opinion....
βSit,β Bernie said.
I sat. Bernie would think of somethingβhe always did.
That was one
of the things that made the Little Detective Agency such a
success,
except for the finances partβ¦β
Chet has smelled a lot of unusual things in his years as
trusted companion
and partner to P.I. Bernie Little, but nothing has prepared
him for the
exotic scents he encounters when an old fashioned traveling
circus comes
to town. Bernie scores tickets to this less-than-greatest-
show-on-earth
because his son Charlie is crazy about elephants. The only
problem is
that Peanut, the headlining pachyderm of this particular
one-ring circus,
has gone missingβalong with her trainer, Uri DeLeath.
Stranger still, no
one saw them leave. How does an elephant vanish without a
trace?
At first thereβs nothing Bernie and Chet can doβitβs a
police matter
and they have no standing in the case. But then theyβre
hired by
Popo the Clown, who has his own reasons for wanting to find
out what
has become of the mysteriously missing duo. After Chet
takes a few
sniffs in Peanutβs trailer and picks up her one of a kind
scent, he
and Bernie are in hot pursuit, heading far away from the
bright
lights of the traveling show and into the dark desert night.
Some very dangerous people would prefer that Chet and
Bernie
disappear for good and will go to any lengths to make that
happen.
Across the border in Mexico and separated from Bernie, Chet
must use
all his natural strength and doggy smarts to try and save
himselfβnot to mention Bernie and a decidedly uncooperative
Peanut,
too.
To Fetch a Thief shows why readers everywhere
have
fallen
head-over-paws in love with the Chet and Bernie mystery
series. Top
notch suspense, humor, and insight into the ways our canine
companions think and behave combine to make this the most
entertaining and irresistible book in the series yet.
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