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This section is about mysteries featuring DOGS!!! Whether actually helping solve the crime or just in the background, they play a major role in most of these books! These books are my favorites and the ones I seek first in a book store. I do not like the book jackets that feature a dog and then there is not one anywhere in the book!

Our Pekes think it is about time for a Pekingese in one of these books. Actually there was an adorable Peke in "Walking After Midnight" by Karen Robards. She was named Muffet and since our first Peke was named Muffet I had to immediately get this book.

Delilah Doolittle is going to Vegas. But not to gamble. She's trying her luck at an unsolved mystery. Two years ago Delilah's husband, Roger, turned up murdered during a performance of the Canine Chorus. Besides the howling hounds, the only clues she has are some stray documents Roger left behind, an ostrich egg, and an ostrich boa-wearing Pekingese. Not much. Now Delilah has to retrace her husband's steps to find a connection—before the killer bow-wows for an encore!

Ah ha! Another dog mystery with a Pekingese!

Kathryn Lively What hopes to be the first installment of the Andy Farmer Mystery Series, Pithed is set in Jacksonville, Florida; it is a story of revenge, public school bureaucracy, and a dog named Steely Dan. Pithed is based upon an idea by Kathryn's father, a science and math teacher of 30+ years, with characters and settings inspired by Kathryn's own high school years.

2005 AVAILABLE DOG MYSTERIES

LYDIA ADAMSON
Dr. Nightingale Comes Home ............ 1993
Dr. Nightingale Rides the Elephant .... 1994
Dr. Nightingale Goes the Distance ..... 1995
Dr. Nightingale Goes to the Dogs ...... 1995
Dr. Nightingale Chases the Pigs ....... 1996
Dr. Nightingale Enters the Bear Cave ...1996
Dr. Nightingale Meets Puss in Boots ....1997
Dr. Nightingale Rides to the Hounds ....1997
Dr. Nightingale Races the Outlaw Colt ..1998
Dr. Nightingale Traps the Missing Linx .1999
Dr. Nightingale Seeks Greener Pastures .2000
Dr. Nightingale Follows A Canine Clue ..2001

CAROL LEA BENJAMIN
1996 This Dog For Hire
1997 The Dog Who Knew Too Much
1998 A Hell Of A Dog
1999 Lady Vanishes
2000 The Wrong Dog
2001 The Long Good Boy
2004 Fall Guy

LAUREN BERENSON

1995 Pedigree to Die For
1996 Underdog
1996 Dod Eat Dog
1997 Hair of the Dog
1998 Watchdog
1999 Hush Puppy
2000 Unleased
2001 Once Bitten
2002 Hot Dog
2003 Best in Show
2004 Jingle Bell Bark

MELISSA CLEARY

1992 A Tail Of Two Murders-1993 Dog Collar Crime
1993 Hounded To death
1994 Skull & Dog Bones
1994 First Pedigree Murder-1994 Dead & Buried
1995 The Maltese Puppy-1996 Murder Most Beastly
1997 Old Dogs
1997 And Your Little Dog Too
2000 In the Doghouse

CAMPBELL. Ann Wolf in Sheep's Clothing Annie O'Hara & Claudius the Dog
SUSAN CONANT
1. A New Leash on Death (1989)
2. Dead and Doggone (1990)
3. A Bite of Death (1991)
4. Paws Before Dying (1991)
5. Bloodlines (1992)
6. Gone to the Dogs (1992)
7. Ruffly Speaking (1994)
8. Black Ribbon (1995)
9. Stud Rites (1996)
10. Animal Appetite (1997)
11. The Barker Street Regulars (1998)
12. Evil Breeding (1999)
13. Creature Discomforts (2000)
14. The Wicked Flea (2002)
15. The Dogfather (2003)
16. Bride and Groom (2004)
17. Stud Rights (2005)

DIETZ. Denise 1999 Footprints in the Butter
Features Ingrid and her canine Hitchcock.

GRAHAM. Mark The Killing Breed (1st) Wilton McCleary-PD- set 1874

PATRICIA GUIVER
1997 Delilah Doolittle & the Purloined Pooch
1998 Deliah Doolittle & The Motley Mutts
1998 Delilah Doolittle & The Careless Coyote
2000 Delilah Doolitte & The Missing Macaw
2001 Delilah Doolittle & The Canine Chorus

2003 The Beastly Bloodline

VIRGINIA LANIER
1995 Death in Bloodhound Red (1st)
1996 The House on Bloodhound Lane
1997 Brace of Bloodhounds
1998 Blind Bloodhound Justice
1999 Ten Little Bloodhounds
GABRIELLE LORD
1998 The Sharp End. Policemen with two tracker dogs-Australia

MARKS. Jeff 1998 Canine Crimes short stories of all kinds of dogs

MCCAFFERTY. Barbra Taylor 1990 Pet Peeves Haskell Blevins

LESLIE O'KANE
1998 Play Dead with protangonist Allie Babcock
2000 Ruff Way To Go
Give the Dog a Bone

Following is a bit more information about some of these authors and their books.

HOWLING BLOODY MURDER
By Sue Owens Wright
Beanie and Cruiser's Homepage
We have not read this book yet,(March 03) but will be getting a copy soon. It sounds marvelous. This is the way it is described:
A scentsational mystery featuring Cruiser the Basset Hound!

GERALD HAMMOND Mr Hammond has written several excellent books featuring
dogs. His protagonist is John Cunningham and the setting
is Scotland. The series began with DOG IN THE DARK.
Another that I particularly enjoyed was titled
WHOSE DOG ARE YOU.

Big Black Dog in Vallarta
Branham, Mary
Sydney Reardon travels to Mexico to prevent an old school friend from
committing suicide. Once she reaches Mexico she gets involved with a
murder and a large black dog named Corn.

Wolf at the Door
Campbell, Ann-Jeanette
Claudius, also known as the Hound from Hell, and Annie, the hound's
reluctant owner, visit Roswell, New Mexico, stumbling over dead bodies
and stray UFO's.
Sally's in the Alley
Davis, Norbert
Carstairs, a Great Dane the size of a small Shetland pony, and his
wisecracking private eye companion are sent to the Mojave Desert on
a mission for the government.
Miracle Strip
Bartholomew, Nancy
When the canine mascot of the Tiffany Club is snatched, exotic dancer
Sierra and her Chihuahua, Fluffy, chase after the kidnappers.

CANINE CRIMES
Quote from an email received 1-21-99
"Hi,
I'm Jeff Marks, the editor of the recently released Canine Crimes, a dog-related mystery anthology. I'm also pleased to announce that we'll be having another volume come out in November, 2000. (Note...the book is out and shown)
A Canine Christmas-- Now Available

Waggish tales of dogs, Christmas, and murder--
by sixteen of today's best-loved crime novelists!

Deborah Adams - Melissa Cleary - Mark Graham - Patricia Guiver - Jane Haddam - Parnell Hall - Jeremiah Healy - Dean James - Virginia Lanier - David Leitz - Jeffrey Marks - Taylor McCafferty - Leslie O'Kane - Anne Perry - H. Robert Perry - Lillian M. Roberts

A temperamental Yorkie provokes Yuletide mayhem at an English country house . . . A puppy forgotten in Santa's bag helps quell a coup at the North Pole . . . During a snow-white Christmas, a Portuguese water dog noses out murder at a Vermont inn . . . and many more!

Some books have a delightful dog in them but in a more
"supporting" role. Below are books with a good doggie
side-kick.

BAD LOVE by Jonathan Kellerman
One of my favorite mystery writers introduces Spike, a French
Bulldog. Spike is a wonderful little character and even "helps
out" a little in this story.

HELP THE POOR STRUGGLER by Martha Grimes
A Richard Jury mystery featuring a ten year old girl named
Lady Jessica and her dog, Henry. Jessica insists that Henry
feel whatever emotion she is feeling but mostly, Henry just
wants to sleep.

BUCKY, The Prairie Dog!
Adopted and he loves living among books.
Click on Image to read about his kin. They make great little pets
but are often viewed as pests and slaughtered just for sport.

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