What do Midnight Louie, Joe Grey, Koko, Yum Yum, Sneaky Pie
Brown and Mrs Murphy, Winky and Tiny and Tim have in common? They
are all four-legged sleuths who help their human companions solve
mysteries. And, you can find them all at the Morgan Hill
Library.
What do Midnight Louie, Joe Grey, Koko, Yum Yum, Sneaky Pie Brown and Mrs Murphy, Winky and Tiny and Tim have in common? They are all four-legged sleuths who help their human companions solve mysteries. And, you can find them all at the Morgan Hill Library.
Sneaky Pie Brown and her mistress, Rita Mae Brown have collaborated on 13 Mrs. Murphy mysteries plus the Sneaky Pie’s Cookbook for Mystery Lovers. The Sleuthing Cats series is created by Marianne Pridemore.
Lilian Jackson Braun is the author of almost 30 Cat Who … novels and one short story collection. Her sleuth, journalist/philanthropist Jim Qwilleran, solves crimes with the help of his two Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum. Braun’s books can also be found both in large type and audio versions.
Shirley Rousseau Murphys’s cats, Joe Grey and Dulcie, have the amazing ability to read, speak, and use the telephone. These abilities definitely give them a paws up on the competition. Joe Grey refuses to keep his paws off a case even when Clyde, his irritating human “owner” demands that he stop meddling.
In Toasting Tina, the fifth entry in Evan Marshall series about literary agent Jane Stuart and her tortoiseshell companion Winky, Jane runs afoul of the most hated person in the publishing industry and is a suspect when Tina is electrocuted in her bathtub.
Lydia Adamson is the author of numerous mysteries featuring professional actress, semi-pro cat sitter and amateur detective Alice Nestleton. In A Cat On Jingle Bell Rock Alice searches Manhattan for a missing philanthropist and gets some unexpected help from a pair of Siamese cats named Tiny and Tim.
In Cat In A Neon Nightmare, Carole Nelson Douglas’ 15th Midnight Louie mystery, Louie and his human pals, Temple Barr and Max Kinsella are on the trail of a gang of outlaw magicians. It’s October in Louie’s hometown of Las Vegas and Louie is planning on turning into a couch potato, but fortunately for the reader, there are mysteries to be solved.
Finally, if you prefer your felines and sleuths English then you might want to try one of the many mysteries by Marian Babson.
Questions and suggested topics for At the Library, which appears in Tuesday editions, should be directed to Nancy Howe, community librarian, at nh***@**********************ca.us or by calling 779-3196. The Morgan Hill Library, located at the corner of Peak and West Main avenues next to City Hall, is open every day but Sunday.
