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16 purrrfect cat tales..lol mystery cats.. written by your favorite cozy writers.
From the back cover:
This murderously entertaining collection assembles sixteen purr-fect tales of crime and cats by some of today's best mystery writers.
Lilian Jackson Braun's charming Siamese SuSu is the first to smell a rat in a chilling tale of two spinster sisters and an eccentric neighbor. Edward D. Hoch's favorite thief, Nick Velvet, accepts a commission to catnap a pampered pet named Sparkle and ends up a whisker away from death. Ruth Rendell leads an unwary motorist up the garden path to an elderly cat owner's cottage, giving a sinister twist to the old maxim, 'an eye for an eye.'
These, along with thirteen other purebred stories of felines and felonies, make for spell-binding reading for mystery fans and cat lovers alike.
This murderously entertaining collection assembles sixteen purr-fect tales of crime and cats by some of today's best mystery writers.
Lilian Jackson Braun's charming Siamese SuSu is the first to smell a rat in a chilling tale of two spinster sisters and an eccentric neighbor. Edward D. Hoch's favorite thief, Nick Velvet, accepts a commission to catnap a pampered pet named Sparkle and ends up a whisker away from death. Ruth Rendell leads an unwary motorist up the garden path to an elderly cat owner's cottage, giving a sinister twist to the old maxim, 'an eye for an eye.'
These, along with thirteen other purebred stories of felines and felonies, make for spell-binding reading for mystery fans and cat lovers alike.
This murderously entertaining collection assembles 16 purr-fect tales of crime and cats by some of today's best mystery writers. Lilian Jackson Braun's charming Siamese SuSu is the first to smell a rat in a chilling tale of two spinster sisters and an eccentric neighbor. Edward D. Hoch's favorite thief, Nick Velvet, accepts a commission to catnap a pampered pet named Sparkle and ends up a whisker a way from death. Ruth Rendell leads an unwary motorist up the garden path to an elderly cat owner's cottage, giving a sinister twist to the old maxim "and eye for an eye". These along with 13 other purebred stories of felines and felonies, make for spell binding reading for mystery fans and cat lovers alike.
...taken from the back cover of the book.
...taken from the back cover of the book.
I enjoyed this set of feline mysteries. Favorite stories included "The Lady Wore Black" by Hugh B. Cave and "The Theft of the Mafia Cat" by Edward D. Hoch.
Normally don't care for anthologies, but this is a collection of 16 top mystery writers, Ruth Rendell, Lilian Jackson Braun, Patricia Highsmith and Patricia Moyes to name a few and each story was better than the one before it. As the cover ofthe book says, when murder is the cat's meow these stories make for spellbinding reading for mystery fans and cat lovers alike!
Good reading, if you like cats, you will enjoy these stories. A good mix of all sorts of stories.
