Detective Dog needs a vacation. But can he get any rest?

Jack and Max think a ghost has taken their kitten. Of course, Detective Dog knows there is no such thing as a ghost, but he must go look in a creepy old house. And that's when his rib-tickling problems begin!

From the critically acclaimed author of The Highly Effective Detective comes this deliciously funny follow-up featuring the lovable but bumbling P.I. Teddy Ruzak. After the state shuts him down for practicing detection without a license, Teddy thinks his investigating days are over. Then he discovers the body of a man outside his office, a homeless man whom he had befriended just the day before. Teddy suspects foul play, but the police think he's barking up the wrong tree. Then his normal befuddlement is exponentially enhanced by two very unexpected--and potentially very dangerous--visitors from the pound. With his signature wit and gripping suspense, Richard Yancey has written yet another irresistible page-turner. It is sure to win him and Teddy Ruzak a whole new series of fans.

Sam: Dog Detective is back in a ghostly adventure that occurs during summer vacation at a spooky old mansion built by a pirate.

Gertrude LaRue receives typewritten and paw-written letters from her dog Ike, entreating her to let him leave the Igor Brotweiler Canine Academy and come back home.

One morning, drunk and unaware of where he fell asleep, detective Jihoon Min wakes up in an unfamiliar motel, and soon discovers that he is wanted for murder, because the man who killed his fiancée was murdered in the same spot where she died as soon as he was released from prison. Jihoon Min's alibi is soon proven, and he dives right into the case, finding the fingerprints of a man who died 30 years earlier at the scene. He travels to Daegu with Detective Sooyoung Lee to investigate the case, but there is another murder there as well, and he realizes that the two cases are connected. The case spirals out of control and the two detectives realize that a huge conspiracy is afoot, but danger looms over them both.

D.O.G. is going on vacation to Hawaii. He is hoping for some time of relaxation and fun, but that is not what happens .... an evil black Labrador traps him a crate. Will D.O.G. escape or stay locked up forever???