The Cat and the Jack of Spades (Five Star Mystery Series) [Hardcover]

Carole Nelson Douglas (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 206 pages
• Publisher: Five Star Pub; First Edition edition (December 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786228962
• ISBN-13: 978-0786228966
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.5 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,610,970 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

With her home office a Twilight Zone landscape of mannequins in vintage dress, no wonder award-winning ex-journalist and novelist Carole Nelson Douglas's 55 novels range from historical and contemporary mystery and romance to science fiction thrillers to high and urban fantasy. They include two Las Vegas-set series: the Midnight Louie, feline PI, mysteries partially narrated by a "Sam Spade with hairballs" and the Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator, noir urban fantasies of werewolf mobsters and Silver Screen zombies in a paranormal Vegas.

Douglas was the first author of a Sherlockian series with a female protagonist, diva-detective Irene Alder, the only woman to outwit Holmes, debuting with the New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Good Night, Mr. Holmes. Rachel McAdams plays Irene in the Dec. 25 film with Robert Downey, Jr. as Sherlock. Douglas says if she has a literary muse, it's definitely feline: mysterious, wise, playful, and packing sharp shivs in velvet gloves.

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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Douglas's Funny One!, October 12, 2008

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Kouji Onoue "BOOK BUG" (JAPAN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Cat and the Jack of Spades (Five Star Mystery Series) (Hardcover)

It is a good Mystery as Douglas's other mysteries.
Please try it without prejudice!

14 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars This is NOT a Large print edition, January 26, 2001

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Mike Corkill (Richardson, TX USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Cat and the Jack of Spades (Five Star Mystery Series) (Hardcover)

This is NOT repeat NOT a large print edition. My wife finally got tired of waiting for the regular one and had me order this one (she doesn't use a computer much). It is set in 11 pt Plantin font, which is probably what the others are, but it's regular print. I wanted you to know in case you were waiting for the regular print edition. As far as the book itself is concerned, my wife says not enough Louie, too much talking. People aren't as developed as in the other books. She does wish the authoress would tell in the current series what happened to some of the people introduced in these prequels but not in the current series. She feels the invention of him being a missing English Lord was a bit much.

0 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars THE CAT AND THE JACK OF SPADES, October 9, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The Cat and the Jack of Spades (Five Star Mystery Series) (Hardcover)

JUST WAS BROWSING FOR NEW MIDNIGHT LOUIE BOOKS WHEN I SAW THESE. MY MAIN COMMENT IS ABOUT THE REVIEW WRITTEN BY THE MAN WHO SAYS THIS IS NOT A LARGE PRINT BOOK. WHILE THIS IS NICE TO KNOW NOT ONE WORD ON WHAT THE BOOK IS ABOUT.