Episode 2
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Yes, my name is Watson. Here Watson. Sit Watson. Think Watson. Stop thinking Watson! – we’ve been through all that palaver. But when it comes to sniffing or ‘tracking’ as the boys in blue (like Kyle grrr) say I’m after what’s off! ‘What’s off Watson?’ asks Aileen (ha ha ha) and I want to say Kyle but he wears a very pleasant Italian aftershave. Or is that a mask!!? Mmm, interesting.
Actually, concerning Kyle and Aileen, what is it with those humans? Aileen obviously fancies the guy. But will she tell him? Narf! Will she even admit it to herself? Narf again. Us dogs on the other hand… we get the signal…
Enough’s enough, hardly lovely.
Unlike The Lovely Bones. Slurp. Very munchable. A book with real marrow. That aside though, is there a clue? It was recommended by someone called bookguide. A guide dog? Nah…which is not a full narf. But near enough. Dismiss. A blind alley.
Now, we’re on our way to Iowa, via Edinburgh, London and St. Louis. All have canine connections, or stories, even statues. I noticed that. Did you though? Nah…just means all these places have gone to the dogs.
Doc Rebus’s bookshop on the other paw. Left for fishy, right for rat. Which is it that’s twitching. Rat! I smell a rat. There’s something in that name. It’s a puzzle. It’s also that inspector chappie* (Inspector Dog Food, now there’s a thought pal!?) And there’s a little anagram in there: ‘obscured’.
But hang about, that book Aileen’s picked up – The Dumas Club (pronounced Doom ah, in case you were wondering) there’s someone called Irene Adler in that book!! Oh no. My left paw is wobbling. Fishy. But not a rat. Fishy is sometimes just fishy. I’m told there’s also a dog in that book called Dogtanian. I’d like to swash buckle with him! Pretentious Spaniel!
I’m going to ignore the fact that that dog on the front of The Hound looks rather like me. Someone’s playing silly buggers.
But there is something wrong with the book! I’m getting a really complex whiff, a bit like a cheese that’s been smoked with herbs and seaweed or, or a dinosaur’s footprint! When a dog gets a cheesy, ancient sock-like whiff like this all four paws go haywire!
But but but, look at this, ink that fades the minute you read it!!! Aileen!!
It’s too much. We need to sit down with a cuppa and a cupcake. Better get down to the Copper Beeches. Hopefully I’ll pick up a really whiffy scent there.
* Chappie is a brand of dog food in the UK. As is Pal.
The Lost Book is an animated web series where you wrote the plot.
