Posted by: Mark Haddon - Author, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, A Spot of Bother

For the sake of completeness, really (see above)

This is the picture I sometimes add to signed copies of Curious:

I did it a few times in Italy, where it was not received as well. Though having done it, I now know the Italian for ‘Ah. With flies!’. Which I may be able to use in a restaurant one day.

Sometimes, when signing stock copies for Random House (2,500 was my record, I think; my wrist survived, but after seven hours bent over a book, my distance vision went a bit odd and I bumped into several people on the way back to the tube) I would relieve the boredom by adding a few of these drawings. Last year I met a woman who said she’d bought a signed copy of Curious. She was especially pleased because it had a drawing in it. A dead dog. And lots of little love hearts. I decided it would be unkind to disabuse her.