George and Oscar: Dog Detectives

By L. J. Walker

This story is about two dog detectives who love an adventure, so hearing that one of their friends a Pekinese has lost her son Pumpkin decide to try and find him and hope that he hasnt been taken by Queen Tabinetta.....a vicious cat.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Jul 23, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524633516

L. J. Walker

Lorraine Walker lives with her husband in one of the most beautiful parts in France, where they have a holiday home business. She has been writing for most of her life, but this is the first book she has offered for publication. Most of the cats, dogs, and the horse in the book have been part of her extended family at some point in her life. She bred pedigree blue and cream British cats for twenty years, and Percy and Teddy were father and son. She is also a qualified chef and hopes to write a cookbook in the future. She has two grown-up children and lives the dream in the French countryside.

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Interior Art Credit: Clemency Bunn

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Published by AuthorHouse 10/13/2016

ISBN: 978-1-5246-3352-3 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5246-3351-6 (e)

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Contents

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

CHAPTER SIX

CHAPTER SEVEN

CHAPTER EIGHT

CHAPTER NINE

CHAPTER TEN

CHAPTER ELEVEN

EPILOGUE

GEORGE AND OSCAR, DOG DETECTIVES

by

L. J. WALKER.

CHAPTER ONE

George the Basset Hound and part time detective ran into the house he shared with his brother Oscar. He found him in the living room in front of the fire snoozing. Wake up Oscar, he shouted, I’ve something important to tell you, WAKE UP.

Oscar yawned very loudly and opened one eye to see a very agitated George looking down at him. Oscar pulled himself together and got to his feet, whatever is the matter George, you look quite hot and bothered?

Phoona the Pekinese has lost Pumpkin, her baby, he hasn’t been seen for two days, she is distraught, thinks he wandered away towards DARKLY DOOMLAND after taking him for a walk near Silvery Pond. Oooh my good heavens, exclaimed Oscar, Not DARKLY DOOMLAND.

It’s up to us to find him Oscar, said George pacing up and down the well worn Persian carpet. I think this will test our metal and our dusty detective skills, we need something exciting to blow the cobwebs away. It’s a long time since we had a mission to accomplish.

Oscar, a much more cautious fellow than his brother, did not think the idea of going anywhere near DARKLY DOOMLAND was exciting. It filled him with a feeling of dread, but he knew to argue with George was pointless, so cheerily he said, whatever you say George let’s go for it!

That’s the spirit Oscar, we Bassets together in the force for good. We will start tomorrow! Just then, Tom, their English Bulldog butler, came in with a tray of cakes for afternoon tea. Splendid, exclaimed Oscar. I will have the jam doughnut and you George, eyeing his brother up and down, better not have any, you are getting a roly-poly tum. Inwardly George had to agree, I will have to be fit for the task ahead, he thought and graciously waved away his favourite Victoria sponge cake.

After tea they had a game of Scrabble. Much to Oscar’s irritation George won the game again for the 3rd time in a month. I MUST, MUST read the dictionary soon, Oscar scolded himself. Let’s go for our walk Oscar. It was a lovely moonlit night and as they sauntered down the lane they spied Mr Fox stealthily treading through the undergrowth going about his business. The crickets were making music in the trees and Oscar had his nose down a rabbit burrow when George stopped suddenly and exclaimed in a whisper, What if Queen Tabinetta has captured Pumpkin for his beautiful coat?!

Oscar drew himself up sharply and said hoarsely, Don’t even think about it, we will never get him back if that’s the case. It was well known in