Murder at the spaniel show
Record details
- ISBN: 0684189615 :
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Physical Description:
118 p. ; 22 cm.
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, c1988.
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | Sixteen-year-old Tabby wonders what connection lies between her boss, a blind dog breeder, and the sinister death threats to his twin brother who has arrived to judge an important national show. |
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Subject: | Dog shows Fiction Dogs Fiction Blind Fiction People with disabilities Fiction Twins Fiction Mystery and detective stories |
Available copies
- 3 of 3 copies available at Bibliomation.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
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Burroughs-Saden Main - Bridgeport | XJ HALL (Text) | 34000025630542 | Closed Stacks Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
Burroughs-Saden Main - Bridgeport | XJ HALL (Text) | 34000025635491 | Closed Stacks Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
North Branch - Bridgeport | J HALL (Text) | 34000025630666 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
School Library Journal Review
Murder at the Spaniel Show
School Library Journal
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Gr 6-9 Tabitha (``Tabby''), teenaged assistant at Quintessence, recounts the five suspenseful days when the kennel hosts a national dog show and one of the ``Best of Show'' judges dies. The victim, twin brother of Quintessence's blind owner, Turner Quinn, has received threatening notes and phone calls which baffle the police. Tabby, who has done some sleuthing on her own, realizes too late that her own boss is plotting revenge for the accident which caused his blindness and which he has always blamed on his twin. This is an exciting and satisfying ``whodunit.'' Several suspects have believable motives. The details of the dog show add interest and atmosphere in this well-written and well-paced mystery. Most of all, the heroine speaks with the convincing voice of a someone caught up in a terrifying conflict. She really admires and trusts Turner. Gradually she and readers realize how menacing he is. Turner's death in jail, of a heart attack, like the one he caused his hated twin, adds an ironic twist. Young adults will certainly enjoy this much better-than-average entry. Judy Greenfield, Rye Free Reading Room, N.Y. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
Murder at the Spaniel Show
Kirkus Reviews
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A brisk mystery with an unusual setting and a likable heroine, from a prolific author of YA books. Tabby is spending the summer before her junior year as an assistant at a kennel for springer spaniels, owned by blind Turner Quinn, and is deeply involved in arrangements for the national springer trials and show to be held there. One of the judges is Turner's twin, Teddy. On his arrival from England, Teddy immediately begins to receive death threats; Tabby, the Quinns, and the police try to discover how serious these threats are and who is making them. The fast-paced narrative culminates in a claustrophobic, suspenseful sequence--with Tabby trying to escape a dog carrier in time to warn the intended victim. While the solution to the mystery is never in much doubt, Tabby's breezy, humorous voice is always believable. The denouement is a bit cursory, but the suspense holds taut and the atmosphere is vividly rendered. A fast read with an offbeat, downbeat ending. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
BookList Review
Murder at the Spaniel Show
Booklist
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Despite the constant teenage demand for a good mystery, few YA mysteries are as good as the adult genre fiction. Here, as in Johnston's Return to Morocco [BKL N 15 88], the plotting is absurd, with loose threads everywhere and a revelation-- in the last chapter-- that the victim had a weak heart. Yet readers will be drawn to Hall's unpretentious narrator, 16-year-old Tabby, smart, awkward, a little heavy. She's a ``dog nut'' (``if I wanted to meet boys I'd be applying at Pizza Hut''), and she works summers as general assistant and gofer at a prestigious dog kennel, the site of the big four-day national spaniel show at which the murder takes place. Tabby's voice is honest and affectionate, whether she's describing sleeping puppies ``curled up in pairs, throats crossed for warmth and security,'' or giving an insider's wry view of the passion, egotism, and eccentricity of the owners on the dog-show circuit. Dog nuts like Tabby will love it. A grade 5 reading level makes this suitable also as high/low material. Gr. 5-12. HR.