Delilah Doolittle and the Purloined Pooch

by Patricia Guiver

Book Overview

Surf City's citizens are fighting like cats and dogs.The beef concerns the proposed commercial development of a wetlands habitat. And when people start dying, Delilah suspects greedy land developers...or maybe overzealous eco-warriors.Especially when her beloved dog, Watson, digs up new clues...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425159639
• ISBN13: 9780425159637
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Berkley Books
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Fun and Hillarious!

Dee is a perky British lady and her friends make the book fun and entertaining. I have just ordered the rest of the series. Really look forward to reading the rest of the books. I recommend these highly.

A good read

Delilah Doolittle was new to me with this title. I found her career choice to be quite unique and of great interest. What I expected to be glossed over as a gimmick turned out to be a fascinating way to spend one's time. The plot twisted and led me along to a good conclusion full of danger and intrigue. I hurried to order the other titles in this series and look forward to them.

This book was a very good mystery! I enjoyed very part of it

This book was entertaining. I finished it in a matter of two days. I could not stop reading it. This is my friends book and I am glad that she reccomend it to me!!!! I am an animal lover and this is a great book for any one who is!

great read! Light, entertaining, intriguing.

am a fan of mystery stories since childhood. Would love to hear the author read this aloud on Books on Tape. Think her whimsical sayings would be the ultimate in her English accent! Looking forward to her next book! Hurry out with it

Cute Cozy

Where else but in California could one find an elderly English lady make a living as a pet detective. Delilah Doolittle and her assistant, Watson the Doberman, have been hired to locate a missing German Shepherd, Herbert Fitzgherbert. Delilah and Watson start their investigation in Fitzherbert's home where they find a human corpse wearing an electric dog collar. Though she will continue her hunt for the missing canine, Delilah promises the police that she will stay out of their investigation of the murdered human. However, Delilah quickly realizes that Herbert's trail leaves her assisting the reluctant law enforcement officials. As she gets closer to locating Herbert, Delilah also gets closer to identifying the killer since both cases are linked. DELILAH DOOLITTLE AND THE PURLOINED POOCH is a humorous pet detective mystery that will be enjoyed by dog lovers and fans of Ace Ventura (even if Delilah is only a ten of hearts). Patricia Guiver shows that she has talent in her debut novel, but allows her heroine to be a bit too long winded (I presume that a few more bows from Watson would have helped) and the story line to simple for who-done-it purists. Harriet Klausner Painted Rock