A reader sends in a quote from SCENTS AND SENSIBILITY, a Chet and Bernie mystery. How about making this a Saturday feature? Any quote from a Peter Abrahams novel – including those written under the Spencer Quinn moniker™ – will do. (I’ve trademarked moniker, as it were, because it’s such a strange word.)

Here’s the quote: Bernie’s hand gripped me, so weakly you couldn’t really call it gripping. But I knew he was holding on tight. I know Bernie.