Mark Haddon
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Course Hero. "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Study Guide." Course Hero. 23 Aug. 2017. Web. 29 May 2023. <https://www.coursehero.com/lit/The-Curious-Incident-of-the-Dog-in-the-Night-Time/>.
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Course Hero. (2017, August 23). The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Study Guide. In Course Hero. Retrieved May 29, 2023, from https://www.coursehero.com/lit/The-Curious-Incident-of-the-Dog-in-the-Night-Time/
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Course Hero. "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Study Guide." August 23, 2017. Accessed May 29, 2023. https://www.coursehero.com/lit/The-Curious-Incident-of-the-Dog-in-the-Night-Time/.
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Course Hero, "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Study Guide," August 23, 2017, accessed May 29, 2023, https://www.coursehero.com/lit/The-Curious-Incident-of-the-Dog-in-the-Night-Time/.
Mark Haddon
2003
Novel
Mystery
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.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is narrated in the past tense.
The narrator of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a fan of murder mysteries, particularly those of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the English creator of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries. Christopher borrows heavily from the titles and the structures of such works to narrate his own story. In particular, the title of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time comes from the 1892 Sherlock Holmes short story "Silver Blaze." In it Holmes uses the phrase "the curious incident of the dog in the night-time" to describe the fact a watchdog, strangely, never barked during a theft.
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