"Children and dogs enliven summer doings in Vermont which begin when Polly Freeman and her parents- an artist and a writer- decide to visit the Lanes, who have a kennel. The mystery comes with the disappearance of the oldest and best pup from a brood of cockers and its solution comes with the discovery of a female German Shepherd, escaped and lonely after being imported to America, who had taken the pup to mother. And in the meanwhile there are the neighborhood doings, local projects, dog...