{"id":3389,"date":"2009-07-06T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=3389"},"modified":"2009-07-03T08:47:57","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T14:47:57","slug":"dog-days-of-summer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/dog-days-of-summer-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog Days of Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|1967421\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3390\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/play-dead.jpg?resize=315%2C212&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"play-dead\" width=\"315\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a>Lounging in the back yard with your pup? Pick up \u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|1967421\" target=\"_blank\">Play Dead<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by David Rosenfelt to while away the afternoon. Lawyer Andy Carpenter is a smart aleck, with the redeeming quality of his love for dogs (he used a windfall to found the Tara Foundation &#8211; named for his golden retriever).<\/p>\n<p>A trend in mysteries\u00a0 is the deployment of\u00a0pets as an integral part of the plot. There&#8217;s long been a tradition of cat mysteries (<a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|1057376\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Lilian Jackson Braun<\/strong> <\/a>and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|356926\" target=\"_blank\">Rita Mae Brown<\/a><\/strong>) and now man&#8217;s best friend is catching up. Try\u00a0 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|333349\" target=\"_blank\">The Dog Who Knew Too Much<\/a><\/strong> by Carol Lea Benjamin\u00a0or one of Susan Conant&#8217;s many (such as <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|390817\" target=\"_blank\">New Leash on\u00a0Death<\/a><\/strong> ). After reading about their crime-solving skills, you may look at your dog with new respect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lounging in the back yard with your pup? Pick up \u00a0Play Dead by David Rosenfelt to while away the afternoon. Lawyer Andy Carpenter is a smart aleck, with the redeeming quality of his love for dogs (he used a windfall to found the Tara Foundation &#8211; named for his golden<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/dog-days-of-summer-2\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[138,708,225,96],"class_list":["post-3389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-cats","tag-detectives","tag-dogs","tag-mysteries"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-SF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3389"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3829,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389\/revisions\/3829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}