Cat in the Dark

Description

"Of course I worry. What if the cops witness a cat opening a skylight and masterminding a robbery The tabloids will love it." There's a new pair of thieves in MolenaPoint, California, a renegade yellow-eyedtomcat with a cold disdain for the law,and a scruffy human partner who isno better. The two, clever and silentat their work, are bad news indeedto crime-solving cats Joe Grey andDulcie. But when Joe learns the pair'sconnection to a good friend, and then an innocent couple turns up dead in the library garden, Joe and Dulcie must engage in some fancy paw work to unmask the deceptions and route the real killer -- before his brazen criminal crime spree careens madly toward them.

In addition to her popular Joe Grey mystery series for adults, for which she has received eight national Cat Writers' Association Awards for best novel of the year, Murphy is a noted children's book author who has received five Council of Authors and Journalists Awards. She and her husband live in Carmel, California, where they serve as full-time household help to two demanding feline ladies.

"A cat-chy tale...fast-paced."-- "Publishers Weekly""Excellent reading."-- "Armchair Detective""Delightful."-- "Library Journal""Joe Grey and his sidekick Dulcie...[are] an irrepressible investigative duo...ingeniously mesmerizing."-- "Mostly Murder" "Magical whimsy and deft writing".-- Cats Magazine