[ Collins / No Name ]
Wilkie Collins was a popular English author of novels, short stories, and plays, one of which he co-wrote with his mentor and very good friend Charles Dickens. While Edgar Allan Poe is often credited with inventing the detective story, Collin's 1868 novel The Moonstone is widely regarded as the first detective novel.
There's only one reference to Newfoundlands in this novel, in Chapter 1:
"How-d'ye-do, papa?" said Magdalen, taking Mr. Vanstone as boisterously round the neck as if he belonged to some larger order of Newfoundland dog, and was made to be romped with at his daughter's convenience.