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Jove Deadly's Lunar Detective Agency, by Garrett Marco and Mary E. Lowd. This book is a pair of novellas set in Lowd's "Otters in Space" world, featuring a supposedly hard-boiled detective, a bloodhound named Jove Deadly, and his assistant, an otter named Roen. I especially liked the titles - the overall book is presumably a play on Dirk Gently; the first novella is "Poodle in a Blue Dress," which I assume is from Walter Moseley's Devil in a Blue Dress (which I've actually read); and the second novella is "This Dog for Hire," presumably from Graham Greene's This Gun for Hire. And then the name "Jove Deadly" is a play on Otters in Space II: Jupiter, Deadly. The stories were amusing, but as my mother's daughter I kept being annoyed that the detective's brother Mars Deadly's nickname was "Aries," not "Ares."