✦ LIBER ✦

The Barker Street regulars: a dog lover's mystery

✍ Scribed by Susan Conant

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Year: 1998;2009
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 184 KB
Category: Fiction

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Susan Conant continues to surprise--this time by involving dog writer Holly Winter in a wickedly amusing tale full of dastardly deeds and delightful eccentrics.
An avid devotion to the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and an equally avid devotion to dogs, combine to draw Holly Winter and her two beloved malamutes, Rowdy and Kimi, into one of Conant's most original and entertaining mysteries to date.
Rowdy has finished his training as a therapy dog and now accompanies Holly on weekly visits to the Gateway Nursing Home, where they meet Althea Battlefield, still formidable at the age of ninety, and her two elderly, admiring cohorts, Hugh and Robert--all fanatic devotees of the Master (as they call Sherlock Holmes). When Althea's grandnephew is murdered at the home of her younger sister, Ceci, everyone is horrified, but it's the plight of Ceci herself--who is being victimized by an unscrupulous animal psychic--that finally unites this unlikely group in a...

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars

✍ Anthony Boucher 📂 Fiction 📅 2019 🏛 MysteriousPress.com/Open Road Media;Open Road Inte 🌐 English ⚖ 347 KB 👁 1 views

A Sherlock Holmes script sparks controversy and murder in Hollywood in a "most engrossing mystery" from the author of Nine Times Nine (The New Yorker). Anthony Boucher was a literary renaissance man: an Edgar Award-winning mystery reviewer, an esteemed editor of the Hugo Award-winning Magazine of Fa

Ruffly speaking: a dog lover's mystery

✍ Susan Conant 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Random House Publishing Group;Doubleday 🌐 en-US ⚖ 175 KB

Ruffly, a mutt who hears for the hearing-impaired, tunes into sounds no humans can hear when he and his owner move into the home of a recently deceased dog-lover--and amateur sleuth Holly Winter suspects murder. *From the Paperback edition.*

Black Ribbon: a dog lover's mystery

✍ Susan Conant 📂 Fiction 📅 2011;1995 🏛 Random House Publishing Group;Bantam 🌐 en-US ⚖ 246 KB

**"[Susan] Conant might be the dog lovers' answer to Lilian Jackson Braun's _The Cat Who_ series."--_Rocky Mountain News_** Canine-loving detective Holly Winter is a columnist for _Dog's Life_ magazine. She thinks a week at Waggin' Tail, a camp for canines in the scenic Maine woods, will be a vaca

Evil breeding: a dog lover's mystery

✍ Susan Conant 📂 Fiction 📅 1999;2009 🏛 Random House Publishing Group 🌐 en-US ⚖ 203 KB

*Dog's Life* columnist Holly Winter has just landed a plum contract to write a book on Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge's legendary pre-World War II dog shows. Holly arranges to interview one of the last living participants in those fabulously opulent and exclusive shows: canine fancier B. Robert Motherw

Animal appetite: a dog lover's mystery

✍ Susan Conant 📂 Fiction 📅 1997 🏛 Penguin Group US;Berkley Prime Crime 🌐 English ⚖ 154 KB

When a canine lover is murdered, sleuth Holly Winter discovers his double life. But who can explain the odd behavior of his family? What was his strange connection to a local legend who died centuries ago--and how can Holly muzzle the killer before he strikes again?

Creature discomforts: a dog lover's mystery

✍ Susan Conant 📂 Fiction 📅 2000;2009 🏛 Random House Publishing Group 🌐 English ⚖ 145 KB

Holly Winter, suffering from amnesia after a serious fall, discovers that she has two malamutes, she is a guest on Mount Desert Island, Maine, and that her fall wasn't an accident.