Dead and Doggone; Dog Trainer Mystery, No. 2 [Paperback]

Susan Conant (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1990

A wolf roaming the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts? For Dog's Life columnist Holly Winter, the missing wolf-dog is just one of the mysteries dogging her heels closer than even her big, beautiful malamute Rowdy does! First she discovers a pair of high-class grooming shears stuck in the body of a gossipy dog trainer. Then she picks up the scent of a scam that will chill the blood of every dog owner. But her detective work will son turn Holly into the hunted. And the hunter? The most dangerous beast of all ...

This is #2 in A Dog Lover's Mystery.

Product Details

• Paperback: 182 pages
• Publisher: Diamond Books; 1st edition (December 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1557734259
• ISBN-13: 978-1557734259
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #725,109 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I was born in the Merrimack Valley of Massachusetts. The best friends of my childhood were pointers named Stuffy and Nonny. I had imaginary companions as well: a cat named Thirsty Melirsty Medrinkable, a family of dogs, and parents called Mommy and Daddy Suh. Thirsty and the dog family slowly faded away. The Suhs, however, perished suddenly; they ate fish guts and died. My career as a mystery writer thus began in early childhood: I invented animals, and I killed off fictional human beings.

Now, many decades later, I live just outside Boston. My husband is a clinical psychologist with a private practice in Cambridge. Our daughter, Jessica, who is also my coauthor, lives in New Hampshire with her husband and their young son. My husband and I have an Alaskan malamute, Django (pronounced 'Jango') and two Chartreux cats, Kansas City (K.C.) and Shadow Celeste. The malamutes in my Holly Winter books are composites, but the cats in Scratch the Surface, Edith and Brigitte, are portraits of my own Chartreux.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Not Tested on Animals!, June 5, 2003

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This review is from: Dead and Doggone; Dog Trainer Mystery, No. 2 (Paperback)

Holly Winter returns in the 2nd book in the Dog Lover's Mysteries. Holly writes articles for A Dog's Life, trains at the local obedience club, shows her dog in obedience, and works to find the dognappers of her dog and her father's wolf. Her Malamute, Rowdy, plays a starring role in this book that takes a strong look at testing on animals.

I was not the same after reading this book. I have to admit that after reading it, I started looking more closely at the labels on packaging that say "Not Tested on Animals". This was not a preachy book, but brought to light some shocking things done to animals at some testing facilities. I consider myself an animal lover and was haunted by this book after reading it. Not exactly a lighthearted read, but it was worth it. The first book in this series is "A New Leash on Death". Enjoy!