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|date=September 2017

|isbn=9781782691433

|aznuk=178269143X

|aznus=178269143X

If any moral were to be had, it is from the way Dominic dispenses with largesse and his fortunes at will, often giving a lot away for simple, practical reasons and for simple, practical emotions. But again, that just felt twee – it certainly didn't have the edge a 2017 audience would want from their young readers. This is forty-five years old now, but that's not the main problem, for I don't think it reads as being so dated the young audience today would ever realise. No, the big problem remained the meandering ease with which the author could go anywhere and do anything, without any real narrative consequence. Yes, there are a few 'call-backs', when a friend helped becomes a friend to help so as to return the favour, but this is too loose and flippant for my taste.

For more investigative canines, there is [[Detective Nosegoode and the Music Box Mystery (Detective Nosegoode 1) by Marian Orlon, Jerzy Flisak and Eliza Marciniak (translator)]].