Let me introduce myself, my name is Dudley and I am a private detective. Ever since I was young pup I have been fascinated by the world of detectives. My father was a Police dog and his Father too, so you could say it was in the blood. I was brought up on tales of catching criminals and solving crimes. My first memories are of my Father telling me the stories of my hero Sherlock Bones. I read all of the books several times my favourite being “The Hounds of the Basketball”. Even though I knew Sherlock Bones was a creation from the mind of the author Arthur Colon Boyle, to me he was real and to this day I use his methods as a reference. His picture hangs proudly behind my desk.
When I was old enough I dedicated my life to fighting crime. I passed with honours from the Police Dog Training Academy much to mine and my parent’s pride. Time went quickly by as I fell into a routine of training and guarding, but as much as I enjoyed this work it was not what I had joined up for. I wanted to be involved with real crime cases. My Police career was cut short when I mistook some Corgis as intruders and chased them around a palace causing a bit of a scene (well ok I did damage some national treasures and I bit a visiting president who the pesky corgis hid behind, but that is another story for another day).
I was now jobless and had disgraced the family name. So I did what any other dog would have done. I packed my bags and left home to seek fame and fortune elsewhere. Soon I found myself in the big city. I took on a series of dead-end jobs and fell into a great depression. Then suddenly one day it hit me, I was taking a toilet break on a lamppost when I looked up and there it was! My future career was looking me right in the face. A poster that read ‘Missing! My lovely French Poodle Fifi. Reward given.” There was a picture of Fifi and contact details, this was my ‘Eureka!’ moment.
I soon solved the case and after that I was hired to find lots of missing pets. The rest as they say is history. I earned enough to open an office. The first employee I hired was Miss Milly, she was to be my secretary and do the filing (little did I know most of the filing was of her nails). Then the workload got so heavy it was time for me to appoint a Junior Detective who I could train in the art of detective work. I advertised for the position on the local lampposts and finally one day in walked Lula. We had a short interview I deduced that she was 50% genius and 50% barking mad. But, she was young and eager and also the best of the candidates, the other being a Highland terrier called Hamish who I needed an interpreter to understand his deep Scottish accent. So that was it, Junior Detective Lula (shortened to J.D. Lula) was part of my team. I gave her all of my Sherlock Bones books to read and we were ready for our first case together.
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