Cat Crimes Takes a Vacation (Cat Crime Anthology Series) [Mass Market Paperback]

Martin H. Greenberg (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 30, 1996 | Series: Cat Crime Anthology Series

PURRR-FECTLY SINISTER TALES THAT TRAVEL THE GLOBE
In these fifteen original stories by today's best mystery writers, you will witness a bevy of baffling crimes set in the most exotic vacation spots on earth--and all featuring a four-footed friend. From the French Riviera and the Greek Islands to Monte Carlo and the Cornish Coast, these thrilling mysteries include Midnight Sun, where a tell-tale clue in a cat's luscious fur exposes a killer on a doomed Norwegian tour. . . . The Envelopes, Please, where a screenwriter at Cannes is saved by a fondness for felines . . . and The Cat Who Knew Too Much, who foils a scheming husband out to dispose of his wife in merry old London.
Amusing, intelligent, and eccentric, these clever cat tales are for mystery buffs and armchair travelers!
"A veritable smorgasbord of delightful stories . . . The tales are humorous . . . and all provide interesting twists and climaxes."
--Madison Courier
"Baffling crimes with stunning solutions."
--Mystery News

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

The sixth edition of this popular anthology takes off for exotic locales, with more than enough satisfying cat tales to offset the couple of dogs that come along for the ride. Barbara Paul's "Midnight Sun" offers a Ten Little Indians-like murder in a remote medieval Norwegian tourist site. An unpleasant, long-suffering wife does in her even longer-suffering hubby in Bali, only to have her plans undone by a cat in Gillian Roberts's "The Shrine of Eleanor." Michael Collins sets "The Chocolate Cat" in the Tyrolean Alps, where he deftly combines a seemingly impossible murder, suspense and romance, while the feline spokesperson for Pretty Kitty cat food goes on location in Catherine Dain's "Here Today, Dead to Maui." In "The Cat, the Watch and the Deep Blue Sea," Bruce Holland Rogers offers fully realized characters in a tale of a manipulative grandfather who takes his heirs on a strings-attached cruise. Despite a few less worthy entries, Cat Crimes continues with enough lively antics to keep readers happily padding back for more.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Inside Flap

PURRR-FECTLY SINISTER TALES THAT TRAVEL THE GLOBE
In these fifteen original stories by today's best mystery writers, you will witness a bevy of baffling crimes set in the most exotic vacation spots on earth--and all featuring a four-footed friend. From the French Riviera and the Greek Islands to Monte Carlo and the Cornish Coast, these thrilling mysteries include Midnight Sun, where a tell-tale clue in a cat's luscious fur exposes a killer on a doomed Norwegian tour. . . . The Envelopes, Please, where a screenwriter at Cannes is saved by a fondness for felines . . . and The Cat Who Knew Too Much, who foils a scheming husband out to dispose of his wife in merry old London.
Amusing, intelligent, and eccentric, these clever cat tales are for mystery buffs and armchair travelers!
"A veritable smorgasbord of delightful stories . . . The tales are humorous . . . and all provide interesting twists and climaxes."
--Madison Courier
"Baffling crimes with stunning solutions."
--Mystery News

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 274 pages
• Publisher: Fawcett; Reprint edition (September 30, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0804114439
• ISBN-13: 978-0804114431
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,787,520 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)