Author(s): James Howe,Brett Helquist
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 88
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Date Published: 2004-05-01
Dimensions: 129.54 x 193.04 x 7.62mm
Publication City/Country: New York, NY, United States
Edition: Reprint
Illustrations: Illustrations, unspecified

Dear Reader,
The guy who usually writes these letters asked me to do it instead. Maybe he was having a bad writing day. Maybe he wanted me to play the sap for him. Or maybe he ran into Trouble with a capital T.
Well, Trouble's in my business. I'm a dog. I'm a detective. The name's Bud Barkin. And this book is about the case I had involving a dame named Delilah Gorbish, whom I would call Trouble with a capital T except I've used that metaphor already, and the clown named Crusty Carmady whose calling card is a teakettle that he heaves through windows. Nice pair of birds. The mystery deepens with another character called the Big Fish, who isn't really a fish and who's addicted to the Home Shopping Network.
Hey, I don't write 'em -- I just solve 'em.
Yours truly,
Bud Barkin, P.E.