A "witty, fast-paced" whodunit starring a Maine dog trainer who plays a game of fetchand winds up framed for murder (Shirley Rousseau Murphy, author of the Joe Grey Cat Mysteries).
One of kennel owner Jack Field's favorite pastimes is spending quality time with a fun-loving poochwhich is why he's playing fetch with a Corgi named Tipper instead of mingling with humans at a July 4th shindig. But when Tipper returns with a bloodstained boating cap in his teeth, the ex-New York cop decides to investigate . . . and finds an anonymous dead body clutching the tennis ball Jack tossed away moments before.