The Cat and the Queen of Hearts (Five Star First Edition Mystery) [Hardcover]

Carole Nelson Douglas (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 257 pages
• Publisher: Five Star (ME); 1st edition (December 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786221739
• ISBN-13: 978-0786221738
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,783,997 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.

Customer Reviews

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20 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another great entry!, March 6, 2000

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Vicki J. Strom "vjs" (Champaign, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Cat and the Queen of Hearts (Five Star First Edition Mystery) (Hardcover)

This book is another great entry in the Midnight Louie series, giving us the back story on Darcy McGill and Steven Austin. I really enjoy finding out about the characters before we got to know them in the other Midnight Louie "The cat and the..." books. If only I didn't have to wait until June to find out what happens next...

I'm glad they these books are now in print, as they give the series an added dimension.