Cat with an Emerald Eye
A Midnight Louie Mystery
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Publisher Description
Is magician Harry Houdini back from the dead?
“It’s time for that old black magic, Midnight Louie by name, to dazzle his loyal fans once more, this time with a nifty foray into the occult!”—RT Book Reviews
Petite PR powerhouse and amateur sleuth Temple Barr must solve the case when death strikes the assembled psychics at a Halloween séance to raise the famous magician’s spirit. With Temple’s ex, handsome magician The Mystifying Max, showing up to tamper with her emotions and the crime scene, she’ll rely on her resident feline PI, Midnight Louie. He has a mystical side of his own and can help her get to the bottom of Murder Most Magical before they all end up at the bottom of a grave.
SANDRA BROWN—“Midnight Louie captured my imagination from the first page.”
“Temple’s investigation turns up some surprising links between the dead man and her own erstwhile amour, the magician Mystifying Max. Laced with good humor and Louie’s acerbic observations, this new adventure gives Louie’s fans something to purr about.”—Publishers Weekly
“Another splendid mystery, an outstanding puzzler chock full of scintillating wit and clever sleuthing. Another bravura performance!”—RT Book Reviews
JANET EVANOVICH—“Feline PI Midnight Louie is the funniest, hairiest, hard-boiled detective on the planet.”
“Midnight Louie is known as a big, bad, streetwise kind of guy, but in his latest antic adventure, the beguiling cat-about-town shows his sensitive side...the motley crew of psychic suspects, Temple’s tempestuous love life (not to mention her world-class shoe collection) and Max and Matt’s past and present problems are just part of the fun...You never know what madness and mayhem you’ll find in Douglas’s mysteries, but you can be sure it will be wild, witty and utterly irresistible.”—Alix Madrigal, San Francisco Chronicle
“Mystical doings in the city that never sleeps...that marvelous cat-about-town on a mission of his own...the most erudite feline ever, Midnight Louie.”—Virginia Knight, Mostly Murder
“Though Cat with an Emerald Eye is an interesting who-done-it, the great pet detective Midnight Louie makes this book and the previous five novels into the wonderful mystery series that it is...the sleuthing of Temple and Louie continues to be first-rate. Mystery lovers will enjoy this tale, especially Midnight Louie’s brushes with the supernatural world. Cat with an Emerald Eye is entertainment at its highest level.”—Alternate Worlds
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
It's Halloween in Las Vegas, the glitzy site of Douglas's mysteries starring black-cat-about-town Midnight Louie, last seen in Cat in a Diamond Dazzle. Against her better judgment, Temple Barr, Louie's human companion, has agreed to participate in a seance at the Hell-o-Ween Haunted Homestead, where mediums are hoping to raise the spirit of Harry Houdini. The seance takes place in a glass enclosure in the center of a tram in full view of eager tourists swirling through the miasma of goblins, spider webs and ghosts. Temple is not surprised when no spirits are raised that she can see, although Louie, who has spirited himself out of a locked condo and into the seance, observes Elvis, Mae West and Amelia Earhart. All are astonished, however, when the medium whose hand Temple had held throughout the session, is dead when the lights come up. The victim was a debunker of false psychic phenomena, and any one of the mediums present might have had reason to fear him. Temple's investigation turns up some surprising links between the dead man and her own erstwhile amour, the magician Mystifying Max. Louie, whose probing solves the case, makes amazing discoveries about his lineage when a cat with emerald eyes informs him that one of his ancestors was King Tut's bodyguard. Laced with good humor and Louie's acerbic observations, this new adventure gives Louie's fans something to purr about.
