This phrase names a novel in which Wellington is stabbed with a garden fork, and the autistic boy Christopher sets out to investigate who killed him; that book is by Mark Haddon.
This phrase titles a book whose protagonist analyzes the sentence "His face was drawn but the curtains were real" to explain why there are no jokes in the book. The protagonist of a book titled for this phrase carries a bottle of red food coloring with him, because he refuses to eat food that is yellow or brown. That protagonist from a book with this title finds a hidden cache of letters that his mother wrote to him every week, proving that his father lied about her being dead. This phrase identifies the most famous "negative (*) clue" in mystery fiction, which occurs in a story in which curried mutton laced with opium was used as part of a scheme to kidnap a racehorse. This phrase names a novel in which Wellington is stabbed with a garden fork, and the autistic boy Christopher sets out to investigate who killed him; that book is by Mark Haddon. For 10 points, name this phrase from the Sherlock Holmes story "Silver Blaze" that refers to the fact that a canine did not bark.
This phrase titles a book whose protagonist analyzes the sentence "His face was drawn but the curtains were real" to explain why there are no jokes in the book.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time [be generous, and prompt on a partial answer]