Published: Dec. 19, 2011
Words: 38,078 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781466050808

Short description

Ask Doodle why he flunked out of service-dog school and he’ll tell you: smart and obedient don’t always go hand in hand. Now he has a new job sniffing out bed bugs for his new boss, Josh Hunter. But when the boss’s ten-year old daughter, Molly, needs Doodle’s help to solve a mystery, Doodle’s nose and Molly’s camera lead them straight to danger.

Extended description

Bed bugs, burglars, and a missing mother. For a bed-bug detecting dog, it's just part of a day's work.

Ask Doodle why he flunked out of service-dog school and he’ll tell you: smart and obedient don’t always go hand in hand. Now he has a new job sniffing out bed bugs for his new boss, Josh Hunter. But when the boss’s ten-year old daughter, Molly, needs Doodle’s help to solve a mystery, Doodle’s nose and Molly’s camera lead them straight to danger.

Susan J. Kroupa is an award-winning writer whose fiction has appeared in Realms of Fantasy, Bruce Coville’s Shapeshifters, and a variety of professional anthologies. Her non-fiction publications include features for The Arizona Republic, High Country News, American Forests, and the Bristol Herald-Courier.

Tags

mystery, dogs, art theft, immigrants, middlegrade, mexicanamerican, service dogs, labradoodles, bedbug dogs, scent detection

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Review by: Gerald M. Weinberg on Jan. 12, 2012 :
Do you love dogs?

If so, read no further. You'll love Bed-Bugged: a Doodlebug Mystery, so just buy it without delay.

Do you love mysteries?

If so, you're going to love Bed-Bugged, but you might need more convincing. Why? Because you may never have read a mystery with a dog as detective. Or with a dog as detective narrator. Or especially with a bedbug sniffing dog as detective narrator. But that's exactly what Doodle, the Labradoodle, is.

I loved many thing about the book, not the least of which was the mystery itself, which concerns a number of crimes from simple theft to complex theft to kidnapping. (No murders, no awful language, and no explicit sex, so your kids can enjoy it, too.)

I enjoyed all the characters, but I couldn't help falling in love with Doodle and his owner's daughter, Molly.

But in a way, I most loved watching a story from the low-down, smell-based point of view of a working dog. For me, a mystery reader and writer, it opened my mind to many new ways of observing a crime and its solution.
(reviewed within a week of purchase)

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