Cat inΒ a Sapphire Slipper is the twentieth title in Carole Nelson Douglasβs sassy Midnight Louie mystery series.Β The tough-talking,Β twenty-pound,Β tomcat PI is as feisty as ever as he and his gang try to keep his favorite roommate from losing her man.
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PR honcho Temple BarrβsΒ romance novelist aunt Kit hasΒ wound up in a romantic plot of her own.Β Sheβs snagged one of the most eligible bachelors on the Strip, one of the elder Fontana brothers, a silver-tongued reputed ex-mobster with a heart of gold.
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There is to be a weddingβ¦and where there is a wedding there is usually a bachelor party.Β Things go disastrously wrong when the entire party is hijacked and taken to a remote ranch out in the Nevada desert, a place where the women are wild and the sex is legal.Β And among the group?Β None other than Templeβs own Matt, an ex-priest.
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Truly a fish out of water,Β heΒ soon comes upon a beautiful young woman who is quite naked and most thoroughly dead.Β Given the remoteness of the location with very few suspects on hand (plus the Fontanas' shady reputation) this could be a very bad thing indeed.Β
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And Louie?Β Well, he managed to go along for the ride and once again itβs up to that big old tomcat toΒ bail out his humans and save the day.
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Cat in a Sapphire Slipper is a fast-paced, racy mystery with a loveable cast of characters and one terrific tough dude to keep them all in line.
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