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Authors: Susan Conant
That bull pup that appears in “A Study in Scarlet” and never again?
“I keep a bull pup,”
Watson tells Holmes. Watson
keeps
a bull pup? He assuredly does. He keeps that pup well hidden between the lines of every adventure. Watson was a
woman?
Certainly not!
When I had finished my presentation, Althea nodded solemnly.
“When you have eliminated the impossible,”
she quoted, “
whatever remains,
however improbable,
must be the truth.”
And the truth is …? Watson
was
the bull pup! Elementary? “Indeed,” agreed Althea, “Watson assuredly
was
a dog.”
Susan Conant, three-time recipient of the Maxwell Award for Fiction Writing, given by the Dog Writers’ Association of America, lives in Newton, Massachusetts, with her husband, two cats, and two Alaskan malamutes—Frostfield Firestar’s Kobuk, CGC, and Frostfield Perfect Crime, CGC, called Rowdy. She is the author of eleven Dog Lover’s Mysteries and has just completed the twelfth,
Evil Breeding.
If you enjoyed THE BARKER STREET
REGULARS, you won’t want to miss any of Susan
Conant’s tantalizing Dog Lover’s Mysteries.
Don’t miss
EVIL BREEDING
by
Susan Conant
All of the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
This edition contains the complete text of the original hardcover edition.
NOT ONE WORD HAD BEEN OMITTED.
THE BARKER STREET REGULARS
A Bantam Book / published by arrangement with Doubleday
PUBLISHING HISTORY
Doubleday hardcover edition / March 1998
Bantam paperback edition / 1999
All rights reserved.
Copyright © 1998 by Susan Conant.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 97-12751
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eISBN: 978-0-307-56927-1
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