num_pages: 226
description:  Madeleine Burke is prepared to swear that she was Dr. Challoners last patient on Tuesday evening and that he was alive and in good spirits when she bade him good night.While holidaying in Algiers Hugh Challoner encounters the lightning-sketch artist Aubrey Highton. Highton is desirous of finding a job back in England and Challoner agrees to helpbut then his enigmatic new friend disappears.Back in England Dr. Challoner is strangled in his own surgery and it is discovered that Highton is one of the last to have seen the slain man alive. Who exactly is Highton other than a former Foreign Legionnaire? And why was a drawing of a laughing dog left in the diary just beforeor just afterthe unfortunate doctors demise?The Laughing Dog was originally published in 1949. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.
language: English
title: The Laughing Dog
publisher: Dean Street Press