Cat in a Flamingo Fedora: A Midnight Louie Mystery (Midnight Louie Mysteries) [Mass Market Paperback]

Carole Nelson Douglas (Author)

Book Description

Series: Midnight Louie Mysteries | Publication Date: April 15, 1998

That rough-and-tumble black tomcat Midnight Louie and his flame-haired human companion, temple barr, think shooting a cat food commercial will allow them to play hooky from mayhem. But life is never easy for the vivacious pair, and Temple and Louie are center stage when beloved comic actor (and notorious ladies' man) Darren Cooke is shot to death. Cooke had asked Temple to find out if a mysterious stalker was his unacknowledged daughter, and she is determined to find out the truth. But the search for truth raised a dangerous question: Was this really a murder, or was Cooke a tortured funnyman who finally rang down his own curtain.

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The seventh chapter in the seemingly endless saga of Midnight Louie, the self-adoring cat who lives with Las Vegas p.r., sometimes p.i., woman Temple Barr (Cat with an Emerald Eye, 1996, etc.). This time, Temple is busy promoting artist Domingo's installation of a million plastic flamingos all over town and supervising Louie's performance in a TV cat-food commercial. Louie's costar is the love of his life, Yvette, owned by hyper has- been actress Savannah Ashleigh. Meanwhile, Temple's own emotional life is complicated by fuzzy attachments to the temporarily vanished magician Max Kinsella and to ex-priest Matt Devine, presently working the suicide watch on a local hotline. In a chance encounter, Temple meets aging star act Darren Cooke, as famous for his sex life as for his stage career. He wants advice on the anonymous letters he's been getting from a woman claiming to be his daughter. Soon after, Cooke is found shot to death in his penthouse suite and declared a suicide. But Temple has her doubts, and Matt wonders whether Cooke was the persistent caller on his hotline who repeatedly said he was a famous person. As his mistress starts nosing into Cooke's affairs, carefully keeping out of the way of Police Lt. Molina, Louie is having his own problems on the set- -plagued by longtime enemy Maurice and frustrated in his play for Yvette. The whole unlikely mess is eventually resolved at inordinate length, with a melodramatic confession from an unexpected source. Masses of inane cat chat and psychobabble, convoluted plotting, and showy but dull characters: strictly for Louie fans and lovers of the frenetic Las Vegas scene, rendered here in all its tacky detail. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Review

"You never know what madness and mayhem you'll find in Douglas's mysteries, but you can be sure it will be wild, witty, and utterly irresistible."--The San Francisco Chronicle

"Douglas leads her readers on a merry chase before neatly drawing these disparate thread together. Midnight Louie's fans will be delighted."--Publishers Weekly

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Forge Books (April 15, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0812565355
• ISBN-13: 978-0812565355
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #703,714 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Murder is for the birds., March 28, 1999

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Patricia Mattos [e-mail] (Minneapolis, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cat in a Flamingo Fedora: A Midnight Louie Mystery (Midnight Louie Mysteries) (Mass Market Paperback)

In Cat in a Flamingo Fedora, amateur sleuth, Temple Barr, finds herself up to her high heels in pink Flamingos and one of the suspects in a murder. When philandering actor, Darren Cooke is murdered and Temple is one of the last people to see him alive, she must once again undergo questioning by her nemesis, Lt. Carmen Molina while trying to solve this murder with an unusual twist. The murder occurs while Temple is playing stage mother to Louie who is filming a cat food commercial with his lady love, the Divine Yvette at Gangsters Night Club. Whenever danger rears its ugly head, however, this feline sleuth drops what he is doing and springs to the side of his human companion to try to solve yet another murder. Louie not only helps Temple, but he must also contend with the murderous Maurice, a feline felon who threatens all of Louie's nine lives. Even if he solves the murder and dodges Mauriice, he must face the wrath of Yvette's human, Savannah Ashleigh! How much can one dude take? Fast paced and as captivating as a litter of kittens, Cat in a Flamingo Fedora gets two paws up!

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars That feline sleuth Midnight Louis at his show stopping best, March 19, 1997

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This review is from: Cat in a Flamingo Fedora: A Midnight Louie Mystery (Hardcover)

Temple Barr, Las Vegas public relations specialist and part time sleuth, finds herself once again simultaneously working both careers. The local Chamber of Commerce has hired her to serve as a liaison between artist Domingo, and the movers and shakers of the town. They hope to obtain permission for the eccentric maestro to plaster their collective properties with about a million pink ceramic flamingos. While acting as stage mother to her cat, the renowned Midnight Louie, who is starring in a TV commercial, Temple meets Darren Cooke, a womanizer and famous comic, who needs her sleuthing help. ....... Darren is being stalked by a woman, through letters and vitriolic phone calls. The near hysterical woman claims to be his biological daughter. Darren wants Temple to find out if this woman is in deed a child of his that he knew nothing about or if she is a dangerous nut. After finishing his heartfelt plea, Darren makes a pass at Temple, who walks out on the aging Don Juan. However, when he is shot on the set, she begins to investigate the women in Darren's life. As Temple peels away the layers of deception, danger to her own life grows stronger, forcing her personal body guard, Midnight Louie, to protect her while looking over his own shoulders to insure he does not become a victim too. ......... Anytime Midnight Louie appears, readers know that they are in for a treat. With her latest entry in the fun series, CAT IN A FLAMINGO FEDORA, Carole Nelson Douglas continues to provide some of the most thrilling and humorous sleuthing west of the Mississippi. ........Harriet Klausner

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4.0 out of 5 stars Cat in a Flamingo Fedora, November 5, 2009

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This review is from: Cat in a Flamingo Fedora: A Midnight Louie Mystery (Midnight Louie Mysteries) (Mass Market Paperback)

This was the second Midnight Louie book that I read. so I knew already that it would be fun to read. I was rather upset after reading a previous Midnight Louie book to learn that Louie was helping to produce kittens, which is a bad thing in the real world. This story resolves that problem in a unique way and the notes at the end reveal the author as a real cat lover.
This is more than a fun read. The Matt character brings a note of seriousness and glimpses of truth into the story in a way that is very effective. I hope he gets the girl.