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Cat Crimes 2: Masters of Mystery Present More Tales of the Cat
Cat Crimes 2 Masters of Mystery Present More Tales of the Cat Author:Martin H Greenberg (Editor), Ed Gorman (Editor) From the pens of today's most prolific, popular and feline-fancying mystery writers comes this chilling collection of original stories that will leave you purring for more. — A collection of 19 previously unpublished short stories featuring cats in one role or another-enticing and/or bloodcurdling tales to please ailurophiles and suspense and mys... more »tery fans alike. Carole Nelson Douglas takes anthropomorphism to elegant heights as Midnight Louie, a tom who's a private dick, harries Las Vegas malefactors in "The Maltese Double Cross." In Charlotte Macleod's "A Long Time Sitting," a witch, who has been immobilized by a backfiring spell, and her feline familiar, Asphodemus, make life easier for a struggling young woman artist. In "The Beast Within," Margaret Maron writes of a woman's revenge when she finds herself in the body of a cat after her wealthy husband abandons her for a younger woman. And a little bit of not-so-recent musical history is unveiled in Joan Hess's "The Maggody Files: Hillbilly Cat," when a grasping nephew tries to cheat his old aunts out of a small fortune they do not know they have.« less