
He finds it in a shirt box on top of his father’s closet. The next day he starts looking for his novel. One day Christopher’s dad finds the book.

Christopher decides to keep on writing his book. She tells him that Mr Shears was having a relation with his mum long before Mr Shears divorced Mrs Shears. He tells her his mom is dead and she is shocked. After school he is talking to Mrs Alexander, another neighbour. He knows something special is going to happen. For him, that means the day is going to be a “Super Good Day”. The next day he spots five red cars in a row. He forbids him to continue writing the book, and Christopher promises he will stop it. He doesn’t want the name of that man mentioned in his house.

He had divorced Mrs Shears and murdering her dog could be a way to hurt her feelings. He is terrified of strangers, but he pulls himself together and asks the neighbours what happened. He starts to write a detective about a dog killed in the night. At his special school he gets to write a book. His dad forbids him to continue the investigations, but despite these tries he carries on with the research. He is doing detective-work in the neighbourhood, but the clues he gets make no sense. He is very upset and he tries to track down the murderer of Wellington. Shears comes running outside, screaming “What the fuck are you doing with my dog!” He tries to explain what happened, but a policeman grabs him at the arm. He likes dogs, so he stays with the dog until Mrs. Christopher finds it lying on the lawn with a garden fork sticking out its side. The dog’s name is Wellington and it’s a poodle. The story starts with the death of a neighbour’s dog. He loves timetables and other things that he can always trust. He’s a whizz in maths and he likes to have everything organized around him.

He prefers to squeeze himself into tight spaces and think about the universe and prime numbers. He doesn’t like to be touched, hugged or whatsoever and he dislikes strangers. Although he is very clever, he has some strange character traits. The story is about a boy, 15 years, 3 months and 2 days old, who copes with behaviour problems. Other characters: Mrs Shears, Mr Shears, Mother, Father (Ed Boones) The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
