Friend Reminder + - Peter Abrahams

Help! At the recent signing at Watermark Books & Cafe in Doo-Dah (nickname for Wichita), a reader showed me a passage she liked in one of the Chet and Bernie books. It’s about how night doesn’t fall (to Chet’s way of thinking) but rather rises up from the ground. I was going to post it but I don’t remember which book it’s from! She showed me, of course, but it was in the signing line where lots is happening. So: anybody?
And meanwhile it’s the last day of the month, meaning last day of eligibility for anyone interested in being Chet’s September Friend of the Month. Winner is the FB profile pic for the month and the human companion gets a signed copy of A Farewell to Arfs. Just send in a pic! The random number generator (below) does the rest!

A Cat Was Involved

As fans know, Chet first met Bernie on that fateful day when he flunked out of K-9 police school. The details of that day though have always remained a little vague (like so much in Chet’s doggy brain). All we know is that Chet had been the best leaper in his K-9 class, but for some reason he failed his final leaping test...and that a cat was involved...and that there was some blood. But whose? The test, the cat, the blood—all pieces of a puzzle that, when solved, will bring down a dangerous gang of thieves—and signal the start of a beautiful friendship.

This fateful day has been alluded to in every book in the series, and now fans of Chet and Bernie will finally get to find out what actually happened. For these two beloved characters, it was something like love at first sight—and, for Chet, at first smell, too.

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