Cat Crimes 2 Author:Martin H. Greenberg (Editor), Ed Gorman (Editor) A collection of 19 previously unpublished short stories featuring cats in one role or another. Offers enough enticing and/or bloodcurdling tales to please ailurophiles and suspense and mystery fans alike. — Carole Nelson Douglas takes anthropomorphism to elegant heights as Midnight Louie, a tom who's a private dick, harries Las Vegas malefact... more »ors 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.
Remote / John F. Suter --
Saratoga cat / Edward D. Hoch --
Tom / Bill Pronzini --
The Maltese double cross / Carole Nelson Douglas --
All places are alike / June Haydon --
Hunger / Christopher Fahy --
Ailurophobia / B.W. Battin --
The Maggody files: hillbilly cat / Joan Hess --
Every Wednesday (a novel idea for a short story) / Nancy Pickard --
The Scent of spiced oranges / Les Roberts --
The Beast within / Margaret Maron --
Kitty litter / Richard Laymon --
A Long time sitting / Charlotte Macleod --
Cat lady / Carolyn Wheat --
The New black cat / Bill Crider --
To kill a cat / Barbara Collins --
Nine lives to live / Sharyn McCrumb --
Five starving cats and a dead dog / Kristine Kathryn Rusch --