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Synopsis
In her sixteenth mystery, actress, cat-lover, and amateur sleuth Alice Nestleton is contracted to look after the cat of a wealthy woman who is promptly shot before her eyes by her own chauffeur, who is holding a cat carrier containing a toy cat on wheels. 15,000 first printing.
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About the Author
Lydia Adamson is the pen name for a noted mystery writer. In addition to the Alice Nestleton series, she is the author of the Deirdre Quinn Nightingale and Lucy Wayles series. She lives in New York City.
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Why would retired accountant Mary Singer offer occasional actress Alice Nestleton $2,500 to board her cat Dante for four days--especially when Dante is nothing but a stuffed toy? It's no use asking Mary, because as she climbs out of a chauffeured Bentley to deliver the button-eyed client to the old warehouse Alice shares with her own two cats, she's shot dead by the liveried chauffeur. If that sounds too bizarre to be believed, it's all on tape, since a passing Canadian tourist, who turns out to be an old colleague and friend of the actor who recommended Alice to Mary, has videotaped the whole murder. No writer could keep up this level of invention for long, of course, and prim Adamson (A Cat on Jingle Bell Rock, 1997, etc.) has soon settled into a soothingly familiar round of quirky caricatures--from Joseph Grablewski, Alice's old acting teacher, who's now on the wagon but not in the clear, to Sam Tully, Mary's neighbor, the hard-boiled writer whose last volume was the well-received Only the Dead Wear Socks. There'll be revelations about the unsuspected past of Alice's old friend Nora Karroll that would rock a more volatile series, but here they cause scarcely a ripple en route to the climactic revelation of what might be called the Jerzy Grotowski diet. In fact, the biggest disappointment for fans of the series (now in its 16th installment) will be the fact that the feline lead is stuffed. -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherDutton Adult
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0525944192
- ISBN 13 9780525944195
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages166
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