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Bought for a sweepstakes winner.

Sent to the winner of the International RABCK Sweepstakes. I couldn't find a wishlist book, so I chose this one based on your profile. I hope you enjoy it!

Thanks for the lovely book!
I have received so many books the last few days that it will be hard to decide which ones to start with :) I'm really looking forward to reading all of them...
I will journal the book as soon as I have read it.

A lovely selection of short stories. I found this book was great to just pick up and read a bit every now and then, I was reading it for almost a month!
Now to think who to send it to next...

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Thanks Ossiefry, looking forward to getting into Canine crimes soon.

How soon almost ten years pass when you are reading... I am a bit ashamed, but judging by the cover it looks like a book I would have wanted to keep and thus was always left for later. However, it seems my St Valentine's Day exchange parcel will never pass British customs as I've sent it ages ago, but it has not arrived (I didn't know about the new customs declaration form which is needed outside EU from 1st Jan 2021=》) and now I need to put together a new parcel ASAP with something canine in it (and read it first). So I came across this and thought it would be a fun and quick read.
The introduction is promising as it refers to one of my old loves, The Hound of the Baskervilles. When I was young, I preferred reading books I've liked to books I hadn't read. We had a summer cottage and no car, so each summer holiday would begin with a 2,5 h train ride and as long as I can remember I had The Hound of the Baskervilles as my train read.
When I was sixteen I was sent to Dartmoor to learn some English. No language school, just the old method of swim or sink. I spent four weeks in a vet's family in Dartmoor National Park, surrounded by the moor and looking at tors from my window. Tavistock was our nearest town and that's where Watson came by train to be taken to the Baskerville Hall. In 1981 there was no longer a railway in Tavistock.

The real Baskerville Hall is actually in Wales, just outside the book town Hay-On-Wye. Conan Doyle stayed there as a family guest and wanted to put the house in his book. The family gave their OK on one condition - the house should be placed elsewhere in the book, because they didn't want nosy people coming to look at their house. Good thinking, as Holmes-fans from all over the world have travelled up and down Dartmoor, looking for a grand house which would fit the description - and haven't found it. The place is nowadays The Baskerville Hall Hotel and I of course had to spend a couple of nights there during a visit to Hay-On-Wye. And it is a match to what is described in the book.

I only knew two of the writers of this book by name. I've now read the first two chapters and number one was almost too scary and number two was sad. I was surprised to read that dog walkers in New York know so little about the life of their regular dog-walking buddies, when even the introvert Finns tell just about everything to a fellow dog-owner if they share the same path on a regular basis.

Pic: The famous Dartmoor Prison, also mentioned in the Hound of the Baskervilles.

This is The Twilight Zone of canine mysteries. Remember the TV-series introduced by no other than Alfred Hitchcock? All episodes were more or less macabre. I'm still reading, but I'm beginning to doubt that this book has a place in St Valentine's parcel. I might release it in the local dog park instead...

It got better with Laurien Berenson and Lillian M. Roberts, the first a show dog breeder and the second a vet, people who are really into dogs. And a big plus for Berenson who proved that there can be a mystery without a body!

Finished. Jumped over a couple of chapters which were too grimm for me, I usually read cosy mysteries.
Left on the bench of a local dog park. Hopefully the next reader is a tuff cookie!

Some of the stories were pretty good, but others were weird.