Status Updates From The Kennel Murder Case (A P...

I’m a cat person, but I loved a few Mysteries that have featured dogs as some kind of important piece of the puzzle. Rex Stout’s In the Best Families; Murder by an Aristocrat by Mignon G. Eberhart; the film Knives Out even has a dog factor. I also loved The Yellow Dog by Simenon, one of the Maigret books. This Van Dine effort is also very strong - it is like a John Dickson Carr book, with an “impossible crime”.

So, Death of an Author and The Kennel Murder Case will be the only pairing of books I do for my ‘John Dickson Carr and Friends’ summer reading project that does not actually feature a JDC novel as part of a pair. I wanted to round up to 30 books for the project, and I decided to go this route, rather than buy an extra JDC novel. I like it; two authors get to go head to head, while JDC gets a little break.