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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time takes place in the year 1998 in and around the town of Swindon, England. The fifteen-year-old narrator of the story, Christopher John Francis Boone, discovers the slain body of his neighbor’s poodle, Wellington, on the neighbor’s front lawn one evening and sets out to uncover the murderer.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a 2003 mystery novel by British writer Mark Haddon. Its title refers to an observation by the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes (created by Arthur Conan Doyle) in the 1892 short story "The Adventure of Silver Blaze".
In this short story, “the curious incident of the dog in the night-time” is that the dog stayed quiet all through the night when a crime was committed, which Holmes takes as an indication that the culprit is someone known to the dog.
Jul 31, 2003 · The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a UK story about a 15 year-old boy named Christopher Boone. Christopher is a brilliant person who is extremely analytical and starts to investigate the death of his neighbor's dog, a poodle named Wellington.
Jul 5, 2024 · The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a children’s book written by British author Mark Haddon that was first published in 2003.
About The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic—both poignant and funny—about a boy with autism who sets out to solve the murder of a neighbor’s dog and discovers unexpected truths about himself and the world.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time tells the story of Christopher Boone’s investigation that leads him to uncover a variety of family secrets and eventually struggle against the personal, developmental limitations on his independence.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic—both poignant and funny—about a boy with autism who sets out to solve the murder of a neighbor's dog and...
In 2003, Haddon published The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, his first foray into adult fiction. The book follows Christopher John Francis Boone, a young boy whose symptoms and behavior suggest he has a mild form of autism, perhaps Asperger’s Syndrome.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is narrated in the first person from the perspective of Christopher John Frances Boone, an adolescent suffering from some form of autism, most likely Asperger's syndrome.
