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A Cat on Stage Left

Lydia Adamson

A Cat on Stage Left

Mystery and Suspense11/29/1998 Rating: 3 Scrolls

Alice Nestleton is an often out of work actor. She supports herself by cat sitting when she is not acting. She also often finds herself sleuthing mysteries. She lives with her two cats, Pancho and Bushy.

Alice receives a phone call requesting her to cat sit in her own home. Normally she sits at the client's home. As she starts to refuse, the woman promised to pay her $2,500 cash up front for four days sitting. Alice finds that hard to resist and accepts the job. Soon a Bentley pulls up in front of her apartment and the chauffeur lets a lady with a cat carrier out of the back seat. The chauffeur then shoots the lady in the head, gets in the car, and drives away.

To complicate matters, when Alice opens the carrier, the cat in it is a stuffed toy. The police wonder about Alice's story, yet an amateur cameraman had videotaped it and sold the tape to the news media. They saw she was innocent, but were suspicious because she could not give any description of the man who had been in the back seat with the woman.

A Cat on Stage Left is a quick read. I enjoyed it, but was not overly impressed. I plan on reading more of these.

The Series:
A Cat in the Evening
A Cat of a Different Color
A Cat in Wolf's Clothing
A Cat in the Wings
A Cat by Any Other Name
A Cat with a Fiddle
A Cat in the Glass House
A Cat with No Regrets
A Cat on the Cutting Edge
A Cat on a Winning Streak
A Cat in Fine Style
A Cat in a Chorus Line
A Cat Under the Mistletoe
A Cat on a Beach Blanket
A Cat on Jingle Bell Rock
A Cat on Stage Left
A Cat of One's Own
A Cat with the Blue
A Cat with No Clue
A Cat Named Brat
A Cat on the Bus
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