Raiders of the Lost Bark

Raiders of the Lost Bark kicks off Spencer Quinn’s Chet & Bernie mystery series. In this fiction volume, the Little Detective Agency - Chet the dog and his human partner Bernie - heads to the Arizona desert. Legendary paleontologist Maya Lakey hires them, but catastrophe strikes before she can explain. Now the pair must dig through academic rivalries, a possibly extinct giant tortoise, and a puzzle of suspicious accidents to seek justice.

Bernie juggles wedding plans with Weatherly while navigating a rogue sheriff, a retired cop’s Porsche collection, a cake-ransoming crook named Dippy, and an enigmatic desert hippie, Robespierre. A silent survivor with a dog may hold essential memories that only Chet can unlock. Humor and suspense collide in this first Chet & Bernie case as the desert gives up its buried secrets.