Review: Petectives - Christmas has arrived! And a Freebie, too!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 13, 2013
But Gatsby, the mobile partner of Yoshi is yet hating the sound of "Jingling Bells". Because the little girl he lives with has put a stupid bell around his neck! What an offense for a petective!Now he jingles to his first appointment - but before that he had heavily argued with his partner in crime about the Christmas Party he wants to throw for the other pets in the neighborhood.Petectives? Bell around the neck? But what are we talking about here?Take it easy, Gatsby and Yoshi are CATS, the first a sleek and fast-moving orange-striped and Yoshi black as coal and never moving too far away from his napping place - Nero Wolfe and Archie in feline version.But there is action in the neighborhood. Penelope aka Penny is hiring the Dynamic Duo for finding out who wants to kill her friend Thor, a big black Lab. He ate a piece of bologna and had to be taken poisoned to the hospital. Now Penny fears for an other attack and the Petectives Team must help!The Pet Police guided by Duke, a big Gernan Shepherd has made an inquiry but without any result. Too much suspects around - from a Doberman called Zabisco to about any other pet around...Because Thor is has a big chow-clap that never ever stops to make sounds, loud sound, very loud sounds! But neither complains with him by the Pet Police nor with his owner by regular Police could shut him down...So Yoshi approves Gatsby's idea of a big Christmas Party to expose the culprit of attemted murder...Now throw in a 4 months old cute, orange street cat urchin, escaped from the shelter, Gatsby's love of his live called Molasses, a love triangle between dogs, a christmas tree, a lot of chow - and a wannabe killer...So fate will take its course - but Christmas is always the time to be forgiving.So at the very end every pet in the neighborhood will be content and happy.A very entertaining read without humanizing the acting animals too much.The plot is well invented, and has a typical animalistic outcome.It pleased me so much that I have bought the prequel too:Petectives by Robert J. Smith, set at Halloween.I will write about the pets-perience!Meooooow....!