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The curious incident of the dog in the night-time / Mark Haddon.

By: Material type: TextTextEdition: Red Fox editionDescription: 271 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9781782953463
  • 1782953469
  • 0224063782
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823.914 22
Summary: Christopher is 15 and lives in Swindon with his father. He has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. He is obsessed with maths, science and Sherlock Holmes but finds it hard to understand other people. When he discovers a dead dog on a neighbour's lawn he decides to solve the mystery and write a detective thriller about it. As in all good detective stories, however, the more he unearths, the deeper the mystery gets - for both Christopher and the rest of his family.
List(s) this item appears in: Hāwera Reading Vine | Hāwera Reading Vine - Mystery Stories | Hāwera Reading Vine - Reality Stories
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Fiction Stratford Fiction HAD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A00410763
Children's fiction Waverley LibraryPlus Children's Children's fiction HADD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available i2137246
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Originally published: 2003.

Christopher is 15 and lives in Swindon with his father. He has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. He is obsessed with maths, science and Sherlock Holmes but finds it hard to understand other people. When he discovers a dead dog on a neighbour's lawn he decides to solve the mystery and write a detective thriller about it. As in all good detective stories, however, the more he unearths, the deeper the mystery gets - for both Christopher and the rest of his family.

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