Gone to the Dogs...and Cats ;-)

Most people give their pets names, some of them very imaginative. But not Craig Johnson's sleuth. As Sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyoming, he's just not that much into fancy names. So his office dog is called...Dog. Who is Johnson's creation?

Unlike her creator's other sleuth Phryne Fisher, Melbourne baker Corinna Chapman relies on her two cats, whom she calls The Mouse Police, to keep her bakery rodent-free. Who is Corinna's creator?

In The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson have to deal with a case that just may involve a phantom hound. What is the setting for most of this novel?

Everyone on Commissaire Adamsberg's Paris police team knows very well who runs their office: Snowball the cat. In fact in one novel, Snowball even does a bit of sleuthing. Who is Adamsberg's creator?

Two very elegant seal-point Siamese cats own journalist James 'Qwill' Qwilleran in the long-running 'Cat Who...' series. Who is the author of that series?

Dogs are featured in several of Agatha Christie's stories. In fact, one of them, Hannibal, is even a sleuth-owner! Who shares a home with Hannibal?

Elly Griffiths' Ruth Galloway and her daughter Kate share their home with which of these pets?

M.C. Beaton's Hamish Macbeth is much more devoted to his dogs Towser and then Lugs than he is to actually doing a lot of police work. Where does he live and work?

You wouldn't think that Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe would have much to do with pets. But a dog named Jet features prominently in the novella Die Like a Dog. Who does the 'legwork' in that story?

Robert Crais' Elvis Cole isn't overly sentimental. But he shares his home with a feral cat who only seems to be comfortable with Cole's PI partner. Who is that?