Cat with an Emerald Eye: A Midnight Louie Mystery (Midnight Louie Mysteries) - Softcover

Carole Nelson Douglas is the author of the bestselling Midnight Louie series, which include Cat in a Hot Pink Pursuit, Cat in a Neon Nightmare, Cat in a Midnight Choir, and many more. She is also the author of the historical suspense series featuring Irene Adler, the only woman ever to have “outwitted” Sherlock Holmes. She resides in Fort Worth, Texas.

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.
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