The recent novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon, has been justly celebrated for an innovation: its first-person narrator is autistic and of mathematical bent. But for postal historians, the novel has weightier significance. Curious Incident is the second most compelling book that involves both (a) the mysterious death of a dog and (b) lots of mail….
So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian. Read it here.