Showcasing the top names in mystery fiction today, the seventeen tales included in this unique collection of feline who-dun-its will make anyone's fur stand on end!
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From Publishers Weekly
Each of these 17 crime stories features a cat--as plot device, detective or nemesis. In Barbara Paul's particularly fine "Scat," an aspiring nightclub singer befriends a mistreated cat that rescues her when she becomes involved with murder, mobsters and a corrupt cop. "The Lower Wacker Hilton," a detailed procedural by Barbara D'Amato, follows two police officers into the underground realms of the Chicago homeless, where an old myth about cats trips up a sad and pathetic killer. In the lighthearted "Horatio Ruminates," by Dorothy B. Hughes, the feline hero manages to oust his mistress's unpleasant layabout nephew with the aid of a litter of playful kittens. The first story in the volume, "Ginger's Waterloo" by Peter Lovesey, tells of a snobbish young Englishman whose advice to an opportuning fellow commuter has unintended consequences. In "Buster," Bill Crider's Sheriff Dan Rhodes saves a woman's life when he finds out how and why one of her many furry companions dies. While most of these tales make good reading, all but the most ardent ailurophiles might want to consume the volume in small bites.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
Seventeen new if not overly original stories guaranteed to give you paws--if not pause. There are several hate-the- wife/hubby/kids but love-the-cat tales, include Peter Lovesey's commuter's nightmare, Joan Hess's hunting-lodge destroy mission, David H. Everson's cat-custody case, and John Lutz's gruesome family plot. There are cats as heroes (Pronzini's ``Nameless'' meets Harold) and as villains (Christopher Fahy's metaphorical Venetian metamorphosis); there's a cat hair as a clue in Les Roberts's snappy ``Little Cat Feet,'' and cats as best friends of man (J.A. Jance, Bill Crider) and beast (Jon L. Breen's cat-and- horse story); there is even a cat as narrator in Dorothy B. Hughes's terminally cute ``Horatio Ruminates.'' Finally, there are poor cats (Barbara D'Amato's life in the subway), and the cat to make an ailurophobe squirm (William J. Reynolds's cuddlesome gifts to the needy). Nothing here to equal Edgar Allan Poe's cat, or even Lilian Jackson Braun's. Strictly for feline fanatics. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Ed Gorman is an award winning American author best known for his crime and mystery fiction. He wrote The Poker Club which is now a film of the same name directed by Tim McCann.
He has written under many pseudonyms including "E. J. Gorman" and "Daniel Ransom." He won a Spur Award for Best Short Fiction for his short story "The Face" in 1992. His fiction collection Cages was nominated for the 1995 Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection. His collection The Dark Fantastic was nominated for the same award in 2001.
He has contributed to many magazines and other publications including Xero, Black Lizard, Cemetery Dance, the anthology Tales of Zorro, and many more.
Visit his blog at newimprovedgorman.blogspot.com
He has written under many pseudonyms including "E. J. Gorman" and "Daniel Ransom." He won a Spur Award for Best Short Fiction for his short story "The Face" in 1992. His fiction collection Cages was nominated for the 1995 Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection. His collection The Dark Fantastic was nominated for the same award in 2001.
He has contributed to many magazines and other publications including Xero, Black Lizard, Cemetery Dance, the anthology Tales of Zorro, and many more.
Visit his blog at newimprovedgorman.blogspot.com
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Best of this series, but only an okay read,
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This review is from: Cat Crimes (Mass Market Paperback)
I enjoyed this first book of the series, but not the second or third volumes. If you like cats and are thinking that these are going to be cute stories with the cats as the protagonists, you may or may not like this series. The cat doesn't always "win" and sometimes the stories in the series are only peripherally related to cats.
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