Polakiewicz

Loyal readers of the Barkly series will enjoy this book. They will find Professor Aldous Barkly in retirement from his botany professorship at Stanford University in uneasy retirement. When he is called by his former assistant, Osgood Trotter, to help a fellow canine who has been falsely charged with murder, Barkly agrees take up the case. In doing so, he encounters new challenges---in his role as a detective, and in facing the changes that his life has brought. Barkly and Trotter work together using all of their special canine abilities and problem solving expertise to find the truth. Never minding the cost to themselves, they have to battle corrupt politicians and a rich and ruthless rancher to prevent a miscarriage of justice. This is a book that brings action, mystery and danger together with unforgettable characters that will keep the reader turning the pages to find out what happens next.