The Dog At Night

Harvest Of Stars, 28.

Anti-Guthrie:

"'My boys didn't accomplish much except observe what the dog did in the night time.'

"'What?'

"'The dog did nothing in the night time. Never mind.'" (p. 265)

 

"The strange thing about the dog is that it did not bark, my dear Watson."

-Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played With Fire (London, 2010), CHAPTER 15, p. 251.

 

Both Anderson and Larsson refer to Sherlock Holmes without having to name him. The dog did not bark so it must have known whoever entered the stable at night.

 

 “Before deciding that question I had grasped the significance of the silence of the dog, for one true inference invariably suggests others. The Simpson incident had shown me that a dog was kept in the stables, and yet, though some one had been in and had fetched out a horse, he had not barked enough to arouse the two lads in the loft. Obviously the midnight visitor was some one whom the dog knew well.

-copied from here.