This Dog for Hire: A Rachel Alexander and Dash Mystery (Rachel Alexander & Dash Mysteries) - Hardcover

Benjamin, Carol Lea

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802732925 ISBN 13: 9780802732927

Publisher: Walker & Co, 1996

Synopsis

Private investigator Rachel Alexander and her pit bull, Dashiell, the most portentous new sleuths on the streets of New York, begin their search for a missing dog and refuse to leave the streets until the hip duo has sniffed out a murder.

About this title

From the Publisher:

"This Dog for Hire will grip you and hold you like a puppy with a rag."
--John Lutz, author of Death by Jury

"Joy! Rejoice! Carol Lea Benjamin has arrived and this dog for hire will be celebrated by murder-mystery buffs, the hydrant set, and all eclectic readers."
--Roger Caras, president, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

From the Inside Flap:

She gets top billing.  But he's the real teeth of the operation.  In the search for a killer, they make the perfect team....

She's thirty-eight, too independent for most men's taste, and too suspicious for her own good.  In her back-alley Greenwich Village cottage, private investigator Rachel Alexander has one ace in the hole: Dash, the devoted, barrel-chested pit bull terrier she once saved from certain death, and who is now about to return the favor.

Dash and Rachel are looking for a missing barkless champion basenji named Magritte, and for a killer.  The basenji belonged to a struggling artist found dead on a downtown pier near a sign that said "don't be caught alone."  As Rachel pursues a string of clues that take her from the SoHo art scene to the world of Manhattan's homeless to the Westminster Kennel Club dog show, those words echo in her mind.  For in an urban landscape where good friends are hard to come by and true lovers even harder, Rachel soon discovers how dangerous it can be to trust the wrong person.  Unless, of course, that person is a dog...

About this edition

• Publisher: Walker & Co
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0802732925
• ISBN 13: 9780802732927
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 242