The Case of the Night-Stalking Bone Monster

The 27th book in the Hank the Cowdog book series.

Plot

Starts out with Hank spying on turkeys, later on Hank goes with Slim and High Loper to check the mail, Hank then tries to figure out what IRS means. Later on Hank tries to get scraps and Pete the local cat tries to trick Hank into the giving him the food. Later on one of Hank's bones disappears. Later on Hank asks Drover if he knows where his bone, Drover says that a bone monster took it. Later on Hank tries digging threw Sally May's garden, and he swears he saw the monster and describes it to Drover. Later on a truck comes up the road and in the back is the basset hound Ralph who is a friend of Hank for a long time. Later on another truck comes up the road and in the back is the beagle, Miss Scampers. While Miss Scampers is here Drover, Hank, and Ralph all fall in love with her. Later on when Ralph's owner is leaving and Ralph falls out of the back of the truck. It is then when the two turkey vultures Wallace and Junior come down and say they can fix Ralph up. Wallace says that there's no hope for Ralph when he wakes up, and says he's a chipmunk and he's in love with a beaver disguised as a beagle who is Miss Scampers. Later on Ralph goes back to normal and something scares the three dogs and sends them into hiding, they saw its the night-stalking bone monster. Hank and Ralph hide under a gunny sack, and Drover keeps watch. Drover tricks them into thinking that the monster is all around them. They then all go running, and they see yellow eyes all around them, they say that it smells like sausage. The next morning Hank finds Slim eating sausage, the book then ends.

Major Characters

*Hank- Head of Ranch Security
*Drover- Hank's assistant
*Pete- barncat
*Ralph- basset hound
*Miss Scampers- beagle
*Slim Chance- ranch-hand
*Wallace- turkey vulture
*Junior- turkey vulture, son of Wallace

References

*Monsters
*Bones
*Dogs

External links

* http://www.hankthecowdog.com/