Please join me for a long-awaited guided tour of the role that dogs play in detective fiction.

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Books mentioned:
— My Lady's Money by Wilkie Collins
— The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
— A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
— The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
— The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
— The Mystery of the Black Dog by Ellery Queen
— "The Oracle of the Dog" by G.K. Chesterton
— Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie
— Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie
— Peril at End House by Agatha Christie
— Bats in the Belfry by E.C.R. Lorac
— The Dog It Was That Died by E.C.R. Lorac
— The Kennel Murder Case by SS Van Dine
— Murder Underground by Mavis Doriel Hay
— The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
— The Case of the Howling Dog by Erle Stanley Gardner
— Love Lies Bleeding by Edmund Crispin
— Even Dogs in the Wild by Ian Rankin

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