Mystery Cats
Edition: First Printing  (1)
Publisher: Signet
Published: 1991-12
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780451171016
Copyright date: 1991
Description: This murderously entertaining collection assembles sixteen purr-fect tales of crime and cats by some of today's best mystery writers. Lilian Jackson Braun's charming Siamese SuSu is the first to smell a rat in a chilling tale of two spinster sister and an eccentric neighbor. Edward D. Hoch's favorite thief, Nick Velvet, accepts a commission to catnap a pampered pet named sparkle and ends up a whisker away from death. Ruth Rendell leads an unwary motorist up the garden path to an elderly cat owner's cottage, giving a sinister twist to the old maxim, "an eye for an eye." These, along with thirteen other purebred stories of felines and felonies, make for spellbinding reading for mystery fans and cat lovers alike! --back cover
Table of contents: title: Susu and the 8:30 ghost / Lilian Jackson Braun; title: Miss Paisley's cat / Roy Vickers; title: Arnold / Fred Hamlin; title: Cat's-paw / Mary Reed; title: The abominable house guest / Theodore Sturgeon; title: The faithful cat / Patricia Moyes; title: The lady wore black / Hugh B. Cave; title: Hardrock / Gary Erickson; title: The beast within / Margaret B. Maron; title: The theft of the Mafia cat / Edward D. Hoch; title: The old gray cat / Joyce Harrington; title: The highwayman's hostage / Lillian de la Torre; title: The black cat / Edgar Allan Poe; title: Visitor to Mombasa / James Holding; title: Ming's biggest prey / Patricia Highsmith; title: Long live the queen / Ruth Rendell