Claire Malloy #6
Minotaur Books
May 2003
On Sale: May 18, 2003
Featuring: Claire Malloy
208 pages ISBN: 0312988281 EAN: 9780312988289 Mass Market Paperback (reprint) Add to Wish List
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owner and amateur sleuth Claire Malloy has donned another
hat (or is that a collar?)-as a petsitter extraordinaire.
Her furry charges are Miss Emily Parchester's beloved
basset hounds, Nick and Nora, and two very good dogs they
are. Everything is just ducky...until they vanish. Other
neighbors' pets have also disappeared, and no doubt a
dognapper is on the prowl. . .
Switching to her
sleuthing chapeau, Claire quickly locates the shabby abode
of Newton Churls, who runs a black market in stolen
animals. But instead of a pen filled with purloined
pooches, Claire finds one very dead Newton-and it appears
his own pit bull terriers did him in. Or did they? Claire
smells a human rat behind the brutal murder. And
mysteriously, Nick and Nora are still missing. Now Claire
is doggedly determined to find them...and run a killer to
the ground.