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Purrrfect Crimestoppers
Join these sleuths and their feline friends for a perfectly enjoyable time.

Adamson, Lydia
A Cat on Stage Left
A Cat on Jingle Bell Rock . . . A Cat on the Cutting Edge
A Cat Under the Mistletoe
A Cat in the Wings (With actress Alice Nestleton--- day job: catsitting)

Allen, Garrison
Baseball Cat
Royal Cat (With bookstore owner, Penelope Warren, & her formidable Abyssinian, Big Mike.)

Babson, Marian
Canapes for the Kitties
The Diamond Cat
Nine Lives to Murder
Murder at the Cat Show (Humorous cozies with various cats)

Braun, Lilian Jackson
The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell . . .The Cat Who Called Turkey . . . The Cat Who Went Bananas . . . The Cat Who Brought Down the House
The Cat Who Went up the Creek . . . The Cat Who Smelled a Rat . . . The Cat Who Sang for the Birds . . . The Cat Who Tailed a Thief
The Cat Who Could Read Backwards . . . The Cat Who Said Cheese . . . The Cat Who Blew the Whistle . . . The Cat Who Went into the Closet
(And many more mysteries with retired newspaperman, Jim Quilleran, and his Siamese friends, Koko and Yum Yum.)

Brown, Rita Mae with her tiger cat, Sneaky Pie Brown
Sourpuss . . . The Hunt Ball . . . Cat's Eyewitness . . . Whisker of Evil . . . The Tail of the Tip-off . . . Full Cry . . . Murder on the Prowl
Murder, She Meowed . . .Pay Dirt . . . Murder at Monticello . . . Rest in Pieces . . . Wish You Were Here
(Small town mysteries featuring Postmistress Mary Minor Harristeen (known as Harry), her tiger cat, Mrs. Murphy, and Welsh Corgi, Tee Tucker.)

Cat Crimes for the Holidays - Edited by Martin H. Greenberg, Ed Gorman and Larry Segriff. (1997)
Short crime stories featuring cats

Douglas, Carole Nelson
Cat in a Quicksilver Caper . . . Cat in a Hot Pink Pursuit . . . Cat in a Neon Nightmare . . . Cat in a Midnight Choir
Cat in a Leopard Spot . . . Cat in a Kiwi Con . . . Cat in a Jeweled Jumpsuit . . . Cat in an Indigo Mood
Cat in a Golden Garland . . .Cat in a Diamond Dazzle . . . Cat in a Crimson Haze . . .Cat on a Blue Monday
Catnap Featuring public relations freelancer, Temple Barr, and her black tomcat, Midnight Louie.

Hahn, Harriet
James, fabulous feline (Featuring James, the connoisseur cat)

Hart, Carolyn
Mint Julep Murder . . . Southern Ghost . . .Deadly Valentine . . . A Little Class on Murder
(With Annie Laurance Darling, proprietress of the mystery bookstore, Death on Demand, and her cats, Agatha and Dorothy L.)

Peters, Elizabeth
The Last Camel Died at Noon (With Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, her husband, Professor Radcliffe Emerson, their precocious son Ramses, and his cat friend Bastet.)
The curse of the Pharaohs - an unnamed cat acts as a messenger for Ramses.


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updated April 17, 2007