Detective Blackie's Dog Day Blues

Blackie is a friendly, adventurous lab-spaniel retriever, an emotional support dog to her friend Lou and a detective in Lou and Dirk's BLD Holistic Detective Agency. Blackie is a tough cookie, fiercely loyal to her friends, like Lionel the railroad engineer, who goes missing, and whose blood is found on the railroad track.

There is murder and suspense afoot. They find a corpse in the woods, a hidden drug lab far from the city. There is a railroad hijacking and several kidnappings. Why is the...