# Sneaky Sequels

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sneaky-sequels/634451>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 12, 2012, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sneaky-sequels/634451 "2012-09-12T00:35:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2012, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sneaky-sequels/634451/21 "2012-09-15T14:06:01Z")

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T. Ernesto Bethancourt wrote _The Dog Days of Arthur Cane_, in which the hero was turned into a dog. He could communicate with other animals in that form.

Bethancourt also wrote a series of mysteries about a detective named Doris Fein. In one, she takes her dog to the vet–Dr. Arthur Cane, who “jokes” that he can talk to animals.

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2012, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sneaky-sequels/634451/22 "2012-09-16T00:07:12Z")

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> [@Martian Bigfoot](#):
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> A geriatric Sinatra as McClane would have been pretty awesome. 😛

“Yippie-ki-yay, you kind, brave, warm, most wonderful human being.”

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**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2012, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sneaky-sequels/634451/23 "2012-09-16T03:02:52Z")

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> [@OldGuy](#):
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> Mysterious Island is a sneaky sequel to … Well if you’ve read the book you know, if you don’t know, I guess I won’t tell you here as a spoiler. I’m sure it’s easy enough to Google if you don’t know.

> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> And Ayrton from _The Mysterious Island_ also appears in Verne’s _The Children of Captain Grant/In Search of the Castaways_. It’s not that much of a connection, though. This isn’t so much a sequel as a “connected reality”, which has become common in fiction.

Of course, The Mysterious Island has the distinction of being a sequel that takes place before the earlier book. With no time travel involved. 😕

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