Dog in the Manger

Eli Paxton is hired to find a missing show dog. Soon people start dying, planes start crashing, and it makes no sense, because the dog simply isn't worth that much. It's when they start shooting at Eli that he realizes he's got to solve the mystery fast, because he may not live long enough to solve it slowly.

Eric Lindsay

Trying to solve the mystery before it was revealed drove me nuts, but the clues were all there.

Mike Resnick is the winner of 5 Hugos (from a record 34 nominations), plus a Nebula and other major awards in the USA, France, Spain, Poland, Croatia and Japan. He is the author of 62 novels, 250 short stories, and 2 screenplays, and is the editor of more than 40 anthologies. According to Locus, he is the all-time leading award winner, living or dead, for short fiction, and if 4th on the all-time list when you add in his novels. His work has been translated into 26 languages. He will be the Guest of Honor at the 2012 World Science Fiction Convention.