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{{short description|2010 novel by Alexander McCall Smith}}
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| name          = The Dog Who Came in from the Cold
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| author        = [[Alexander McCall Smith]]
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| country       =  United Kingdom
| language      = English
| series        = Corduroy Mansions
| subject       = The inhabitants of Corduroy Mansions
| genre         = [[Fiction]]
| publisher     = [[Polygon Books|Polygon]]
| pub_date      = 7 Aug 2010
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| media_type    = Hardback
| pages         = 312
| isbn          = 978-1-84697-161-7
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| preceded_by   = [[Corduroy Mansions]]
| followed_by   = [[A Conspiracy of Friends]]
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'''''The Dog Who Came in from the Cold''''' is the second online novel by [[Alexander McCall Smith]], author of [[The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency]] series. In the first series, the author wrote a chapter a day, starting on 15 Sep 2008, the series running for 20 weeks and totalling 100 episodes. The daily chapters, read by [[Andrew Sachs]] were also available as an audio download.
The second and third series were published online, running from Monday 21 September 2009 and Monday 13 September 2010, respectively.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20081219230715/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/corduroymansionsbyalexandermcca/ The Daily Telegraph]</ref>
==Episodic writing==
The concept for ''The Dog Who Came in from the Cold'' is based on [[Charles Dickens]]’ [[episodic writing]] – which were novels serialised through journals in weekly or monthly instalments, in the 1800s. Following a meeting with acclaimed [[San Francisco]] novelist [[Armistead Maupin]], Alexander McCall Smith pursued this method of writing in 2004 with his novel [[44 Scotland Street]]. The story was serialised in instalments every weekday through ''[[The Scotsman]]'' newspaper.
As ''Corduroy Mansions'' and its successors was released online, readers had the opportunity to interact with each other and the author himself through online discussion boards. This was edited by the ''Daily Telegraph'' staff.
The project is a collaboration between [[Telegraph Media Group]], [[Little Brown]] and Polygon (the fiction imprint of [[Birlinn Ltd]]).
==Plot==
The story is set in a fictional housing unit in [[London]] nicknamed [[Corduroy]] [[Mansion]]s, and details the lives of the inhabitants of the large [[Pimlico]] house and others.
The main characters are Barbara Ragg, Basil Wickramsinghe, Berthea Snark, Caroline Jarvis, Dee Binder, Eddie French, Freddie de la Hay, Jenny Hedge, Jo Partlin, Marcia Light, Oedipus Snark, Terence Moongrove, and William French.
The chapters for this book in ''The Telegraph'' ran from 21 Sept 2009 until 19 Dec 2009.
Book three in the series, ''A Conspiracy of Friends'', ran from 13 Sept 2010 until 17 Dec 2010.
==References==
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[[Category:Polygon Books books]]