The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is a novel by Mark Haddon. The title is a quotation of a remark made by the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle's Silver Blaze.

Written as the first-person narrative of Christopher Boone, a 15 year old with Asperger's syndrome, a condition related to autism. Christopher discovers the murdered body of his neighbor's dog, speared by a garden fork, and decides to investigate. He is severely limited, however, by his own fears and difficulties interpreting the world around him. Mark Haddon weaves into the book several concepts from contemporary research and theory on autism, for instance, one incident described in the book is in fact a recreation of a famous experiment regarding Theory of mind. The book also contains a few logic puzzles, such as a description of the famous Monty Hall problem, perhaps as an attempt to give the readers some insight into the mind of a compulsive mathematician.

External links

• A review of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (http://plus.maths.org/issue27/reviews/book4/)