Stable Cat

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Kensington Books, 1996. First Printing Stated . Hard Back. Very Good/Very Good. 5" x 7. 292 Pages. June 1996 Edition. Red boards with black quarter spine and gold lettering. Attractive and colorful dust jacket by R. Farrell. Remainder mark on bottom page edges. Dust jacket has unclipped $18.95 price. This is the third Big Mike mystery---the previous two were Royal Cat and Desert Cat. Begins with The Cast mostly in order and then a Prologue. Everyone's excited about The Great Empty Creek Arabian Show until Sir Beauregarde, a priceless stallion, vanishes and his trainer is found outside the empty stall, shot throught the heart. Luckily for the folks in Great Empty Creek Arizona, murder happens to be Penelope Warren's stock in trade. Penelope is the owner of the mystery bookstore Mycroft & Company and she and her twenty-five pound Abyssinia cat Big Mike have an affinity for sleuthing. But even the most diehard detective may have a hard time sifting through an assortment of perplexing clues, including a bloody earring, a pair of handcuffs, a kinky tryst in a haystack, and the victdim's legendary sexual prowess. There's no shortage of suspects including wealthy Maryanne Melrose, who found the body and has since disappeared into luxurious seclusion.