Review: Love Harry Neal and Cat......
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 3, 2012
I have read most of the Harry Neal and cat mysteries and this is right up there with the best. Harry is sixty three years old, was a history teacher before he dropped out and now lives in a field on a boat and is worrying away his final years on this earth. He does odd jobs like finding Liz Walenton's poodle to help pay the bills. His pal and owner of Gretchen's Kitchen, Gertchen, serves a mean meal including a "buck a bowl, soup of the day" tells him that Mrs. Eva Jankey has had a add in the Gazette for almost ten years now and is looking for someone to find out what happened to her husband who died while out running on Branch Hill Road. She never believed it was a heart attack. Now she has cancer and won't be around much longer. The five thousand dollars she is offering for information as to what really happened to her husband looks real good to Harry. Her granddaughter Priscilla Matson has time off from the Muscle shop, a gym that caters to serious and novice weightlifters and bodybuilders. Harry really like's the thirteen gleaming exercise machines, and after a set at each machine he was hooked. Cat is warm in the trailer Harry pulls behind his bicycle, sleeping on top of a piece of Harrys ex wifes beloved quilt. Harry found cat in a ditch after being run over and with the help of his landlady and retired vet, Annie, nursed cat back. Still cat has a bad paw, scars and a broken tail. A good story that leaves me wanting more of Harry, cat and their adventures.