More About Garnet’s Dog Ringo… by Margaret Langstaff

Ringo and Garnet are kind of a team. Garnet is what is known as a “dog person.” She is very devoted to her Irish Setter Ringo and he provides a lot of emotional support and comfort to her, especially during her painful separation from the love of her life, Chester Dare. When Ringo is kidnapped or dognapped, the bottom really falls out of her world, and she hits bottom. She becomes frantically obsessed with finding him and is worried sick something bad will happen to him.

Ringo is based in part on an Irish Setter I had for a long time whose name in fact was Ringo. I patterned their history together on my experiences with my Ringo. We both (Garnet and I) acquired Ringo rather passively. He chose us—he kept following me home when I rode my bicycle. He belonged to someone else who was neglecting him, and who cared very little about what happened to him. Both Garnet and Ringo were lost, neglected and lonely. They intuitively recognized they needed each other. It was love at first sight.

Irish Setters are stunningly beautiful dogs, especially when they run and those long red “feathers” on their tails and legs bounce, shimmer and shine. They are bird dogs, hunting dogs, and have bred into them the desire to point at birds and retrieve birds for their owners. Ringo gets his “bird fix” every day at the beach across from Garnet’s apartment. He is a happy dog, but when Garnet gets too involved in a case or assignment, he doesn’t get as much attention as he likes and he sulks.

About The Author

Margaret Langstaff has written more than twenty books, both under her own name and as a ghostwriter for others, and countless feature articles and book reviews for prominent national periodicals, such as the L.A. Times, Publishers Weekly, BookPage, and the L.A. Times Book Review and Business Page. She is a former member of the National Book Critics Circle and former board member of the Book Industry Study Group.

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