Midnight Louie, that loveable and feisty feline sleuth returns once again to delight his legions of fans. This time, not only does Louie have to bail out his favorite investigative partner, public relations woman Temple Barr, but he has to save a fellow feline from a charge of Murder One. All of Louie's and Temple's allies and enemies converge on the case when a big-game hunter is found dead with only a leopard for company. And the fun really begins when the unofficial investigators learn that the leopard is Osiris, a performing Big Cat who was kidnapped from his magician owner only days before the murder. Add to the mix a woman who's been surgically altered to resemble a Big Cat, a group of Las Vegas high-rollers who've been paying big bucks to illegally hunt big game at the victim's ranch, and a cadre of ardent animal rights protesters secretly staking out the premises, determined to stop the illegal killing at any price, even their own lives. . . .
By Carole Nelson Douglas from Tom Doherty Associates
MYSTERY
MIDNIGHT LOUIE MYSTERIES
IRENE ADLER ADVENTURES
HISTORICAL ROMANCE
SCIENCE FICTION
FANTASY
TALISWOMAN
SWORD AND CIRCLET
A MIDNIGHT LOUIE MYSTERYCarole Nelson Douglas
A Tom Doherty Associates Book
New York
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For all defenders and rescuers of creatures great and small.
You know who you are, and you know what you do, and why it matters so much.
And the animals know it too.
Previously in Midnight Louie’s Lives and Times…
Prologue: Caged Heat
Chapter 1: Caged
Chapter 2: Bad News Breakfast
Chapter 3: News Flush
Chapter 4: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
Chapter 5: Magic Act
Chapter 6: Sister Act
Chapter 7: A PR in PI Clothing
Chapter 8: Portrait
Chapter 9: Heads or Tails?
Chapter 10: Animal Instincts
Chapter 11: Portrait of a Shady Lady
Chapter 12: Caged Meat
Chapter 13: Trial and Error
Chapter 14: Heaven Scent
Chapter 15: Hussy Fit
Chapter 16: Hissy Fit
Chapter 17: Judgment Day
Chapter 18: Day of the Jekyll
Chapter 19: Sketched in Suspicion
Chapter 20: Feast
Chapter 21: Taxidermy Eyes
Chapter 22: Likely Suspects
Chapter 23: Déjà Vu
Chapter 24: Chuck Wagon
Chapter 25: Guilt-Edged Invitation
Chapter 26: Polishing Off the Past
Chapter 27: Cousins Under the Skin
Chapter 28: K as in Karrot Stick
Chapter 29: Damage Control
Chapter 30: Ringed In
Chapter 31: Elvis Leaves the Building
Chapter 32: Animal Wrongs
Chapter 33: Track of the Cat
Chapter 34: Calling on Agatha
Chapter 35: Tiger Paws
Chapter 36: Synth You Went Away…
Chapter 37: Human Error
Chapter 38: Murder Wears a New Face
Chapter 39: Collusion Course
Chapter 40: Calling the Cops
Chapter 41: Hunt Club
Chapter 42: Secret Witness, Silent Witness
Chapter 43: The Black and Blue Max
