From the first detective story, Edgar Allan Poe’s locked room puzzle “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” onwards, animals, birds, and insects have played a memorable part in countless mysteries, and in a wide variety of ways. Count Fosco, the brilliantly characterised villain in Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White was surrounded by “a cockatoo, … Continue reading Furry Friends and Fiendish Plotting: On Animals In Detective Fiction