The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon { Goodreads } Published by Vintage Contemporaries in 2004 Paperback edition; 226 pages { BookDepository } Christopher is a special kid. He doesn’t like to be touched and doesn’t understand human emotions very well. However, he loves patterns and lives through rules and diagrams. Logic is everything for him but when one night he finds his neighbour’s dog – Wellington – dead, his logical world crumbles and so he decides to take the lead and try to resolve the mysterious murder.