01989cam a2200385 i 4500 1262083648 TxAuBib 230720s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023033332 9781250843302 1250843308 (OCoLC)20978 TxAuBib rda Quinn, Spencer, author. Up on the woof top / Spencer Quinn. First edition. New York : Forge, Tor Publishing Group, 2023. 307 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier ""Dame Ariadne Carlisle, a renowned author of bestselling Christmas mysteries, find Rudy, her lead reindeer and good luck charm, who has gone missing. At Kringle Ranch, Dame Ariadne's expansive mountain spread, Chet discovers that he is not fond of reindeer. But the case turns out to be about much more than reindeer after Dame Ariadne's personal assistant takes a long fall into Devil's Purse, a deep mountain gorge. When our duo discovers that someone very close to Dame Ariadne was murdered in that same spot decades earlier, they start looking into that long ago unsolved crime. But as they reach into the past, the past is also reaching out for them. Can they unlock the secrets of Dame Ariadne's life before they too end up at the bottom of the gorge?""-- Book jacket. Dogs Fiction. Private investigators Fiction. Little, Bernie (Fictitious character) Fiction. Chet (Fictitious character : Quinn) Fiction. Holidays Fiction. Reindeer Fiction. Murder Investigation Fiction. Cold cases (Criminal investigation) Fiction. Cozy mysteries. Christmas fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. Humorous fiction.