"What did he do with the horse?"

Today's reading and browsing has included Gil Brewer, Robert Musil, and my introduction to another Austrian writer often mentioned alongside Musil and who, in fact, knew him.

But no sentence I read today was more delicious than the one that ends Chapter Two of the fourth of the day's books:

"All I could think to ask her was: `What did he do with the horse?'"

And that leads to today's Detectives Beyond Borders question: What words have you encountered for the first time in books and had to look up in a dictionary?

P.S. My admiration goes out to anyone who recognizes the quotation or who can figure out its source from the clue provided here.
© Peter Rozovsky 2013