Sunday is for beginnings, where we take a look at the start of a Peter Abrahams novel, including those written under the Spencer Quinn moniker™. Let’s do the first sentence of the brand new Chet and Bernie mystery, CAT ON A HOT TIN WOOF. It kicks things off in medias res – hitting the ground running – but it’s also what the reader might say on first opening the book:

“Whatta we got here?” said Nixon Panero.

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