associated with because they both knew each other but Bertiaux at least didn't like Grant. I saw a rant by him of the sort. Bertiaux doesn't like a lot of people, though.

My husband met Grant and he liked him. Back when I cared about such things, I found laughable errors in his books, but there's no doubt they are typically entertaining.
I've always thought it'd be cool to have whenever someone doesn't show up any more to group events to claim they'd been eaten up by something with tentacles in a fishbowl.

I like that. Whenever anything goes wrong, give a Grant excuse. :)