The Book Club: Solving 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time'

SUBJECTS:  English

YEARS:  9–10

'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time' is described by the panellists as part quest and part detective novel.

How do they explain this?

What are the two 'cases' that the narrator and protagonist 'solves' in the novel, whether deliberately or inadvertently?

What is the effect of having the reader know more than the narrator in a detective novel?

Production Date: 10 Jul 2014

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