From their Vancouver artist's loft, Beverley Wood, a former Maclean's magazine operations manager, partner Chris Wood and Bull Terrior Cato, create the Sirius Mysteries where characters find themselves time-travelling back to 1930s Juneau, Alaska to Patsy Ann, a real-life, stone-deaf Bull Terrier who "heard"; the whistles of ships long before they came into sight and trotted to the wharf to greet them when they docked. Patsy Ann lives on in a bronze statue of her likeness erected in 1992 on the Juneau waterfront on the fiftieth anniversary of her death and in the resurrected Dogstar (Polestar $12.95), first published in 1997, Jack's Knife, and The Golden Boy, coming out next spring. Dogstar 1-55192-638-5;Jack's 1-55192-709-8; Golden 1-55192-711-X
--Louise Donnelly

[BCBW 2004]