A Captain Heimrich mystery, with all the niftiness of the Hudson Valley setting, devious scheming murderers, and his burgeoning romance with Susan Faye, alternately aided and interfered with by the morose Great Dane, Colonel, who misses his boy terribly in this one (off to camp for the summer, don't you know). This is not really one of the Lockridges' best efforts, and although I'm quite sure I must have read it before (I've surely read them ALL more than once in the last 50 years), I didn't recall it at all. (January 2015)
UPDATE: Re-read May 2021 This time I was really put off by the overly-complicated murder setup. Too contrived. As always, the interaction between the recurring characters, including the four-footed ones, is very good. ( )