Cat Crimes Author:Martin H. Greenberg (Editor), Ed Gorman (Editor) Each of these 17 crime stories features a cat--as plot device, detective or nemesis. In Barbara Paul's particularly fine ``Scat,'' an aspiring nightclub singer befriends a mistreated cat that rescues her when she becomes involved with murder, mobsters and a corrupt cop. ``The Lower Wacker Hilton,'' a detailed procedural by Ba... more »rbara D'Amato, follows two police officers into the underground realms of the Chicago homeless, where an old myth about cats trips up a sad and pathetic killer. In the lighthearted ``Horatio Ruminates,'' by Dorothy B. Hughes, the feline hero manages to oust his mistress's unpleasant layabout nephew with the aid of a litter of playful kittens. The first story in the volume, ``Ginger's Waterloo'' by Peter Lovesey, tells of a snobbish young Englishman whose advice to an opportuning fellow commuter has unintended consequences. In ``Buster,'' Bill Crider's Sheriff Dan Rhodes saves a woman's life when he finds out how and why one of her many furry companions dies.
Ginger's Waterloo / Peter Lovesey --
Bedeviled : a "nameless detective" story / Bil Pronzini --
A weekend at Lookout Lodge / Joan E. Hess --
Tea and 'biscuit / Jon L. Breen --
Horatio ruminates / Dorothy B. Hughes --
Scat / Barbara Paul --
Blindsided / William J. Reynolds --
The last temptation of Tony the C. / Christopher Fahy --
Buster / Bill Crider --
Catnap / David H. Everson --
Last kiss / Douglas Borton --
Little cat feet / Les Roberts --
Finicky / John Lutz --
The duel / J.A. Lance --
Archimedes and the doughnuts / Gene DeWeese and Barbara Paul --
The Lower Wacker Hilton / Barbara D'Amato --A proper burial / Barbara Collins« less