Author- Walker Styles fills his Rider Woofson series full of word play dealing with all things ‘dog’.

Rider Woofson is the lead dog in P.I. Pack.  The P.I. Pack is called in to help “Mega- famous rock star, David Bow-Wowie” (6) whose instruments have been stolen by a ghost. The security video at the Bow-Wow Club shows David Bow-Wowie ‘s instruments start to move on their own and out the door.

Across the street Mr. Meow wants to turn the Bow-Wow Club’s building back into the dentist office it once was. Mr. Meow’s dream will come true if the club can not come up with the money it owes the bank in just one day.

Many years before, David’s family were dentists in the building. Back then, dentists filled cavities with gold. When the gold shipment disappeared one day, the family sold the building.

The P.I. Pack follows some clues to a music store, but they do not pan out. Meanwhile, one of the pack has been investigating in the building’s basement where he has found some ants.

It turns out David puts drops of maple syrup on his instruments before each show in honor of his uncle who told him to follow his dreams. The syrup attracted the ants from the basement who took the instruments, but the ants were too small to be seen. As it turned out, the ants had also taken the gold and buried it in the basement. “After the great discovery, David Bow-Wowie used the gold to pay the bank.” (115) Across the street Mr. Meow is hissing at the moon. He is upset with the P.I. Pack for finding the gold and the instruments. Mr. Meow wants that building! He is the one who put the maple syrup on the instruments.

There are gray-tone pencil drawings on almost every page by illustrator Ben Whitehouse.