# Sleeping Dog

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- Book: [Sleeping Dog](https://www.bookquiver.com/dick-lochte/sleeping-dog) ([Sleeping Dog.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/dick-lochte/sleeping-dog.md))
- Authors: [Dick Lochte](https://www.bookquiver.com/dick-lochte)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4165-692-1
- Pages: 368
- Published: 2023-10-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Serendipity Dahlquist is a headstrong roller-blading teenager living in LA who has lost her dog. She asks private investigator Leo Bloodworth to help her find the missing pet. In what proves to have been a moment of madness, Bloodworth agrees to take on the case, unleashing an appalling--but also extremely entertaining--series of extremely homicidal events. Sleeping Dog remains, almost 40 years after its publication, one of the most wonderful crime debuts: by turns charming, hilarious and pathological, Lochte's novel is a great celebration of everything that is most deplorable and hair-raising about California in the 1980s.