This very early reader looks like it could well have been part of a series when first released in 2006. It certainly deserved to have companion adventures. Two dogs (and I did laugh at the sausage dog's self-description of "a champion draught excluder") realise the town copper is a bit of a thicket, and so help their human mummy policewoman save the day when the furniture store gets burgled. It's exceedingly brisk, even for those first sampling books of such length, but its canine characters are both likeable and mature-sounding, so I think they'd agree with me that this is an intelligent choice.