Cat on the edge

Format:

Book (regular print)

Title:

Cat on the edge

Author:

Murphy, Shirley Rousseau.

ISBN:

9780061056000

Publication Information:

New York, NY : HarperPrism, 1996.

Physical Description:

274 pages ; 18 cm

Series title(s):

Joe Grey mystery ;

Number in series:

BK. 1.

Summary:

It's been quite a week for Joe Grey. First the large, powerful feline discovers that, through some strange, inexplicable phenomenon, he now has the ability to understand human language. Then he discovers he can speak it as well! It's a nightmare for a cat who'd prefer to sleep the day away carefree, but Joe can handle it. That is, until he has the misfortune to witness a murder in the alley behind Jolly's Deli -- and worse, to be seen witnessing it. With all of his nine lives suddenly at risk, Joe's got no choice but to get to the bottom of the heinous crime -- because his mouse-hunting days are over for good unless he can help bring a killer to justice.

Subject(s):

Cats -- Fiction.

Genre:

Detective and mystery fiction

Fiction

Mystery fiction.

Detective and mystery fiction.

Holds:

Available:*

Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... Dayton Public Library	MURPHY	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Amity Public Library	MYS MURPHY Joe Grey # 1	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Dallas Public Library	PBK Murphy, S. Cat	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

It's been quite a week for Joe Grey. First the large, powerfulfeline discovers that, through some strange, inexplicable phenomenon, he now has the ability to understand human language. Then he discovers he can speak it as well! It's a nightmare for a cat who'd prefer to sleep the day away carefree, but Joe can handle it. That is, until he has the misfortune to witness a murder in the alley behind Jolly's Deli -- and worse, to be seen witnessing it. With all of his nine lives suddenly at risk, Joe's got no choice but to get to the bottom of the heinous crime -- because his mouse-hunting days are over for good unless he can help bring a killer to justice.

Author Notes

Fiction author Shirley Rousseau Murphy grew up in Long Beach, California and majored in fine and commercial art at the San Francisco Art Institute. She has worked as a commercial artist and has exhibited paintings and sculptures extensively on the West Coast. She has also been a designer and an interior designer, as well as in a library in the Panama Canal Zone. Murphy has written several children's books, plus the fantasy novel The Catswold Portal, the Dragonbards trilogy, and the popular Joe Grey mystery series, for which she has won eight Muse Medallion awards from the Cat Writers' Association. She and her husband live in Carmel, California.

(Bowker Author Biography)