Search Results: Cats from Murder By The Book

N.Y.: Forge, 1994. 1st edition, May 1994, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Light soiling to page edges else about fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. 3rd Minight Louie title. Las Vegas. "Midnight Louie, the 19-pound feline detective and self-decribed "one cool dude," pads the streets of his hometown Las Vegas in his third case (after Pussyfoot ). From a psychic Birman cat named Karma, Louie hears that danger threatens a gathering of cats; the targets may be the cosseted kitties at the Las Vegas Cat Show or the 73 strays who live with elderly Blandina Tyler. Interfering in his sleuthing is Louie's "little doll," diminutive publicist Miss Temple Barr, who is at the cat show when another Birman is discovered shaved. Temple's neighbor, attractive ex-priest Matt Devine, gets involved while investigating obscene phone calls directed at stone-deaf Sister Mary Monica, who lives at the convent near Miss Tyler's home.… Read More

NY: Putnam, 1992. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Jim Qwilleran and his cats Koko & Yum Yum in their 14th adventure. Pickax City columnist and wealthy bachelor Jim Qwilleran travels to Scotland, leaving his Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum at home, in one of the most lively recent entries in Braun's popular "The Cat Who . . . " series. Also on the Bonnie Scots Tour are Qwill's current woman friend, Polly Duncan, the Moose County librarian; and his recently returned former girlfriend, Dr. Melinda Goodwinter, who proposes marriage. Tour leader Irma Hasselrich (a friend of Polly's and a patient of Melinda's) dies of apparently natural causes; then a jewel case and the tour-bus driver disappear. Qwill, Polly and Melinda decamp the tour early; back in Pickax City, listening to tape recordings he made along the way--and to Koko's intuitive yowls--Qwill begins to suspect that Irma was murdered. Convincing others, however, takes time and an investigation. Although the cats play… Read More

NY: Putnam, 1994. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Jim Qwilleran and his cats Koko & Yum Yum in their 16th adventure, this one set on Breakfast Island.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine.

NY: Putnam, 1993. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. " Newspaperman, philanthropist and sleuth Jim Qwilleran leads a busy life in tiny Pickax City (pop. 3,000), but it is his prescient cats who beguile the reader in this lively mystery, the 16th in the Cat Who. . . series. Qwilleran is renting a huge but empty mansion from Junior Goodwinter, his managing editor, who inherited the white elephant from his feisty 88-year-old grandmother Euphonia Gage when she went to live in a Florida retirement community. When Euphonia is found dead, apparently a suicide, Junior is perplexed. He is still more confounded when her new will suggests that Grandma has gambled away her millions at the racetrack. The death of a local man whose wife was Euphonia's housekeeper raises the suspicions of the already skeptical Qwilleran. He sets up a sting operation with a lively Florida retiree, but his two best operatives are… Read More

N.Y.: Tor 1992, 1992. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover.. 1st Midnight Louie title. Murder at the Las Vegas ABA Book Convention. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: Crime Club Doubleday, 1973. 1st ed. remainder spray at bottom of pages, near fine in dj, a few small closed tears, lightly soiled. Her 1st Mystery with bookstore owner Conan Flagg. SIGNED by Wren and Meg the cat. Oregon setting.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Berkley Publishing Group, 1987. 1st ed. Reading crease, spine edge rubbed, wear along extremeties else a very good copy of this Paperback Original. An ANTHONY Award Nominee.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Paperback Original.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Putnam, 1992. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. Crime writer Qwilleran and his cats Koko & Yum Yum.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

N.Y.: Jove, 1987. 1st edition,December 1987, with complete number line beginning with 1. Reading crease, light wear at edges, some very light rubbing, else a near fine tight copy of this scarce Paperback Original. In this mystery in the bestselling Cat Who series, Jim Qwilleran and his cats, Koko and Yum Yum, are living the high life—until things take a deadly turn... Inheriting unexpected millions has left reporter Jim Qwilleran looking like the cat who swallowed the canary. While his two Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum, adjust to being fat cats in an enormous mansion, Qwill samples the lifestyles of the rich and famous by hiring a staff of eccentric servants. A missing housemaid and a shocking murder soon show Qwilleran the unsavory side of the upper crust. But it’s Koko’s purr-fect propensity for finding clues amid the caviar and champagne that gives Qwill pause to evaluate the most unlikely suspects--before his taste for the good life turns into his last meal.... 1st Edition.… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Putnam, 1996. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. A James Qwilleran, Koko, and Yum Yum mystery.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

N.Y.: Berkeley Prime Crime, 1998. First Edition, December 1998 so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Oversize trade Paperback. Crease at rear cover else a fine copy. Now newly updated--the complete guide to Lilian Jackson Braun's beloved Cat Who...mysteries--with plot summaries, character lists, a Moose County map, and more! Includes a new quiz and new section on Cat Who...Quotables. With this newly updated compendium, Lilian Jackson Braun's fans will discover in more depth than ever the world of the sleuthing Siamese, quiz themselves on Cat Who...legend and lore, and meet "The Lady Who," in an exclusive interview with Lilian Jackson Braun herself. A fact-packed companion that will please even the most finicky fan, this guide is the next best thing to being in Moose County.. 1st Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Berkley Publishing Group, 1987. 1st ed. Reading crease, spine edge rubbed, wear along extremeties , cover creases, else a very good copy of this Paperback Original. An ANTHONY Award Nominee.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Paperback Original.

Waterville, Maine: Five Star, 2003. 1st edition, 1st printing July 2003, so stated. Fine in dust jacket. Dain's first short story collection. Eleven storiesa plus Dain's essay "Sense and Sensibility: Female PI's in the Ninties". Featuring Freddie O'Neal, psychic Marianna Morgan and Faith Cassidy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: Random House, 1975. 1st ed., very light spotting at page edges, ink date at rear ep, else near fine in fine, bright dust jacket. A New Max Roper Mystery in which murder calls set point at the Los Angeles Ladies pro tournament.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Tor, 1993. 1st edition, April 1993, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. 2nd Midnight Louie. Midnight Louie is aprowl again! Award-winning mystery author Carole Nelson Douglas sets her tomcat who's a private dick on the track of murder and intrigue on the sinful streets of Las Vegas. The game is definitely afoot as the trail begins at a striptease competition, where petite public relations freelancer Temple Barr is up to her spike heels in musclebound males, siliconed females - and murder. After a contestant is found hanging from her own G-string the owner of a joke striptease business turns up dead. Then two thugs assault Temple, looking for her ex-flame, a missing stage magician. Implacable female police lieutenant C.R. Molina wants answers now, answers Temple doesn't have. Meanwhile, Temple's relationship with handsome hotline counselor Matt Devine is heating up nicely, but he may hide secrets of… Read More

N.Y.: Tor 1993, 1993. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. 2nd Midnight Louie. SIGNED as by Douglas and Midnight Louie, Esq. Louie's ink pawprint is beside his name, and dated April 1993 the month of publication.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Kensington Publishing Corporation, 1996. 1st ed. Lightly soiled page edges else near fine in dust jacket with one small stain at rear flap. Third in the "Big Mike" Series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Tallahassee, FL, U.S.A.: Naiad Press, Incorporated, 1989. 1st ed. (so stated). A fine copy of this trade paperback Original. Feline Sue Slate solves the mystery of the missing kittens, but not before getting involved with "The God is not Dead Church," and their aids clinic. San Francisco. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. Paperback Original.

NY: Beech Tree Books, 1988. 1ST. ED. Fine in price clipped dust jacket. The third Kinky Friedman, a country-western singer turned amateur sleuth, in New York City.This entry has Kinky at the Madison Sqare Cat Show. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.