num_pages: 261
description: Either way, it was maddeningly mysterious. Captain Harold Jeffries, swaddled in his robe, had settled down for a coqy evening with Crime and Punishment when his wife left the house for bridge party. An hour later he was dead. What could have induced him to dress and go out into the stormy night - much less to walk on the beach, which he hated and never went near? Conan Flagg, proprietor of the Holliday Beach Bookshop and Rental Library, is persuaded by Jeffries's widow to investigate privately; and astonishingly, all the clues lead to Flagg's own Dickensian establishment. With passing assistance from Meg, the bookstore cat, Flagg baits a trap to catch a rat - and find himself dangerously involved in a crime with implications far beyond this lazy seaside village.
language: English
title: Curiosity Didn't Kill the Cat
titlecomplete: Curiosity Didn't Kill the Cat (Conan Flagg, #1)
genres: Fiction, Action, Mystery, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Cozy Mystery, Crime
ratings_count: 150
places: Oregon Coast
series: Conan Flagg
publisher: Ballantine Books