Temple Barr and Matt Devine make a cozy engaged couple, and the feisty redhead is all for her handsome radio host fiance staring in a week-long televised Las Vegas charity event, "Dancing with the Celebs." But while ex-priest Matt struggles to master the sexy moves of the tango, a killer stalks the dance floor. Not only is Matt in danger, but so is the lovely tween Mariah, daughter of homicide cop C. R. Molina, who is dancing in the Junior Division of the show. And so Temple gets dragooned into resurrecting her kicky teen persona, Zoe Chloe Ozone, now an Internet hottie, to ensure Matt and Mariah don't foxtrot into a fatal misstep. Where is Louie in all this? Well, he's out and about, proving that he's still the cat's meow. But he's got his paws full as he tries to keep all the various players in his little troupe from dancing right into death's arms....in *Cat in a Topaz Tango,* the twenty-first installment in Carole Nelson Douglas's beloved Midnight Louie...
By Carole Nelson Douglas from Tom Doherty Associates
MYSTERY
MIDNIGHT LOUIE MYSTERIES
IRENE ADLER ADVENTURES
HISTORICAL
ROMANCE
SCIENCE
FICTION
FANTASY
TALISWOMAN
Seed upon the Wind
SWORD AND CIRCLET
A MIDNIGHT LOUIE MYSTERY
Carole Nelson Douglas
A Tom Doherty Associates
Book New York
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CAT IN A TOPAZ TANGO
Copyright © 2009 by Carole Nelson Douglas
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Douglas, Carole Nelson.
Cat in a topaz tango : a midnight Louie mystery / Carole Nelson Douglas.—1st hardcover ed.
p. cm.
“A Tom Doherty Associates book.”
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1862-6
ISBN-10: 0-7653-1862-8
1. Midnight Louie (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Barr, Temple (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 3. Women cat owners—Fiction. 4. Cats—Fiction. 5. Las Vegas (Nev.)—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3554.o8237c27698 2009
813'.54—dc22
2009012866
First Edition: August 2009
Printed in the United States of America
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Previously in Midnight Louie’s Lives and Times . . .
Chapter 1: Nervous Nuptials
Chapter 2: Louie Left Out
Chapter 3: House of Max
Chapter 4: Alpine Do-si-do
Chapter 5: Missing in Action
Chapter 6: Lost in Cyberspace
Chapter 7: Duty Call
Chapter 8: Police Premises
Chapter 9: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Chapter 10: Grilled Crawfish
Chapter 11: Wolverine Dreams
Chapter 12: Shotgun Reunion
Chapter 13: Car Chase
Chapter 14: Road Scholars
Chapter 15: Emerald City Express
Chapter 16: Text for Two
Chapter 17: Leaving Laughlin
Chapter 18: The Bus Fume Boogie Blues
Chapter 19: Unhappy Hoofer
Chapter 20: Dancing with Danger
