Nine Lives to Murder

Marian Babson

Winstanley "Win" Fortescue wakes up from the accident on stage with a blazing headache. What has happened? Is he dead? He is afraid to move. What injuries does he have? He had fallen off a ladder and had his fall broken slightly when the theater's cat head hit his. As he moves his extremities they seemed to be all right. Then he tries to sit up. His body is not reacting properly.

His conscienceness is in a different body - the cat's body. And the cat's conscienceness is in his human body laying in ICU at the exclusive London hospital. To add problems, an attempt is made on the human's life while in the hospital. Was the original accident really a murder attempt? He now has to travel in the cat's body, deal with the cat's normal instincts (boy, do those mice smell wonderful!), try to reunite the minds to the correct bodies, and discover a potential murderer as well. Plus the show must go on, must open in a few weeks.

Nine Lives to Murder is a cute mystery. It is humorous as the human mind tries to deal with the feline instincts. Win has all the hauteur seen in a great Shakespearean actor and in a cat.

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