Cat in the Dark - (Joe Grey Cat Mystery) by Shirley Rousseau Murphy (Paperback)

About the Book

Another whimsical mystery featuring gumshoes with paws! A renegade tom is masterminding a crime spree that's quickly escalating toward murder. How can Dulcie and Joe Grey expose the criminal without letting humans in on the secret that certain select cats can think and talk?

Book Synopsis

"Of course I worry.
What if the cops witness a cat opening a skylight and
masterminding a robbery?
The tabloids will love it."

There's a new pair of thieves in MolenaPoint, California, a renegade yellow-eyedtomcat with a cold disdain for the law, and a scruffy human partner who isno better. The two, clever and silentat their work, are bad news indeedto crime-solving cats Joe Grey andDulcie. But when Joe learns the pair'sconnection to a good friend, and then an innocent couple turns up dead in the library garden, Joe and Dulcie must engage in some fancy paw work to unmask the deceptions and route the real killer -- before his brazen criminal crime spree careens madly toward them.

From the Back Cover

There's a bad new cat in sleepy little Molena Point: a renegade tom with a penchant for robbery, a scorn for his fellow felines, and a disdain for human laws. And he's masterminding a crime spree that's quickly escalating toward murder most foul.

Dulcie and Joe Grey both know the score -- they've seen Azrael in action. But how can they expose the criminal without letting ordinary, untrustworthy humans in on the secret that certain select cats can think -- and talk? Cats like them ...

Review Quotes

"A cat-chy tale...fast-paced."-- "Publishers Weekly""Excellent reading."-- "Armchair Detective""Delightful."-- "Library Journal""Joe Grey and his sidekick Dulcie...[are] an irrepressible investigative duo...ingeniously mesmerizing."-- "Mostly Murder"

"Magical whimsy and deft writing".

-- Cats Magazine