"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Monroe makes a bizarre gumshoe, with fellow cast members, canines included, just as wacky. An entertaining alternative for chapter-book readers. Monroe (think Gomez Addams’ hairy Cousin Itt) investigates the disappearance of several pampered pooches, only to discover the dognapper isn’t exactly after canine company. In an oversize trenchcoat, Mr. So they are the first to the scene of the crime when a string of high-society dog-nappings and jewel thefts hits Big City. Together they look after the Brown family's eclectic collections - and dabble in a spot of detective work. The story, a lightweight mystery at best, begins by introducing calm, curious, detailed-obsessed young Ottoline, who, along with sidekick Mr. Ottoline lives in a stylish apartment in Big City with a small hairy creature called Mr. The pictures here simply add texture to the words they accompany-but what a delight they are. Award-winning British cartoonist Riddell (the Edge Chronicles, with Paul Stewart) illustrates in pen and ink, enhanced by crosshatching and a smattering of bright red, to concoct a cast of quirky characters and amazingly detailed backdrops on which they interact. This “novel” is probably more pictures than text. It’s not, however, a graphic novel in the sense of a sequential telling nor does it follow the model Brian Selznick used so effectively in The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007), where art replaced text to further the story.
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