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Fruit of the Tomb (Midnight Louie Mystery story)

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WHERE DID THIS COOL LITERARY LION COME FROM: Included is a Midnight Louie interview with collaborator Carole Nelson Douglas

MIDNIGHT LOUIE is SAM SPADE . . . with hairballs.

In his twenty-four book series, the twenty-pound black feline PI narrates his own chapters about his investigations in an alley-cat Noir voice. Meanwhile, four human crime solvers--two pro, two amateur; two women and two men--solve murder most malicious in Las Vegas and unravel an international terrorism conspiracy that threatens all their lives and many more.

"Glitters and snaps like the town that inspired it."--Nora Roberts, New York Times bestselling author

This mystical mystery cat has also had Past Life adventures. "Fruit of the Tomb" is a story set ancient Egypt, where a canny and courageous outcast black cat held the honorable position of Pharaoh's Footstool and became the first Private Eye of Horus. Ancient evil-doers, touch not the cat.

"Among the many appealing felines on the mystery scene, Midnight Louie stands out as the coolest cat of all. You don't have to be a cat lover to appreciate his savoir faire."--RT Book Reviews

"Carole Nelson Douglas takes anthropomorphism to elegant heights as Midnight Louie, a tom who's a private dick, harries Las Vegas malefactors."--Publishers Weekly







Cat in a White Tie and Tails: A Midnight Louie Mystery (Midnight Louie Mysteries)

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In Carole Nelson Douglas' Cat in a White Tie and Tails, Midnight Louie goes along as chaperone when PR whiz Temple Barr and her fiance, rising media star Matt Devine, head to Chicago so she can meet his family. Matt's mother has a tragic past primed to rise and bite anybody in reach, even the ex-alley cat sleuth. When Louie is snatched, the catnapping's surprising motive loops back to Vegas and a string of unsolved murders connected to magic…and ex-magician Max Kinsella, Temple's former significant other.

Skeptical homicide lieutenant C. R. Molina has commissioned Max to investigate the cold case murder she suspects he committed two years earlier. With traumatic amnesia from a recent attempt on his life, the once infallible Max is more sitting duck than predator. It will take an alliance of frenemies to solve the serial deaths before one of them joins the fatality list.


Cat in a Vegas Gold Vendetta (Midnight Louie Mysteries)

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Carole Nelson Douglas's Temple Barr is an ace P.R. wizard when it comes to promoting Las Vegas’ hottest clients. She’s also an amateur sleuth who has caught her share of bad guys.

In Cat in a Vegas Gold Vendetta, B-movie actress Savannah Ashleigh begs Temple to investigate the suspicious death of her rich aunt’s handyman. Temple happily takes the case, if for no other reason than to take her mind off her chaotic private life. Her ex-fiancé, the Mystifying Max, is back—minus his memory. And current fiancé Matt Devine has shown up from a stint in Chicago with the promise of a surprising future. Which may or may not include Temple.

As Temple digs into the man’s untimely demise she finds plenty of suspect and greedy humans swarming around the ailing Aunt Violet, who means to leave her estate to her resident cats. Temple thinks she’s  close to solving the case, but it becomes clear to Midnight Louie, Temple’s roommate and ace feline detective, that there are more deaths both human and feline coming. Add in the return of a mysterious stalker from the past, and it's murder and mayhem on all fronts for Temple, Louie, and the ones they love in the newest story in the Midnight Louie mystery series.

 


Alice Holds The Cards

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"sheer joy!"--January magazine review

Meet Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the “other Washington Monument,” in this short story from a mystery anthology edited by Nancy Pickard. (BONUS: A free sample of a legal thriller by Carole Nelson Douglas's former student assistant, Diane Castle, is included.)

Teddy Roosevelt said of his firstborn: “I can either run the country or I can control Alice, but I cannot possibly do both.”

When the twentieth century was infantile, Theodore Roosevelt’s irrepressible daughter was a lovely Gibson-girl debutante, America’s Princess Alice, married in her father’s White House. She traveled, campaigned, smoked and played poker with her father’s cronies. A cousin of Franklin Delano—and a closer cousin of Eleanor—Roosevelt, Alice survived the betrayals many women married to political men faced during her long era, took on rearing her orphaned 11-year-old granddaughter at age 73, and lived to be 96.

She died at the brink of the Reagan White House, remaining to the bittersweet end America’s tart-tongued girl-turned-grande dame, a Washington Institution as venerable, varied and surprising as the Smithsonian itself.

In later years she had an embroidered sofa pillow that read: "If you haven't got anything good to say about anybody, come sit next to me." And she's surfaced in a new bestselling political novel:

“Watergate also [features] Alice Longworth, the eldest child of Theodore Roosevelt and the snarky grand dame of Washington at the time of the scandal. She is a scene-gnawing hoot, and the moment between her and Nixon just after his resignation speech is one of the novel’s most affecting.”—Fort Worth Star-Telegram review of Thomas Mallon's 2012 novel, Watergate.

About the Black Oil, Red Blood excerpt included: author Diane Castle is the pseudonym of a Texas attorney whose practice experience includes assisting plaintiffs with wrongful death and personal injury cases against Big Oil giants. Prior to her career as an attorney, Diane Castle was Carole Nelson Douglas’s personal assistant and a staff writer for the Dallas Morning News. Diane has been honored with two awards for humor and satire and one award for literary criticism.
Cat in a Vegas Gold Vendetta: A Midnight Louie Mystery (Midnight Louie Mysteries)

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Temple Barr is an ace P.R. wizard when it comes to promoting Las Vegas’ hottest clients.  She’s also an amateur sleuth who has caught her share of bad guys.

B-movie actress Savannah Ashleigh begs Temple to investigate the suspicious death of her rich aunt’s handyman. Temple happily takes the case, if for no other reason than to take her mind off her chaotic private life. Her ex-fiancé, the Mystifying Max, is back–minus his memory.  And current fiancé Matt Devine has shown up from a stint in Chicago with the promise of a surprising future.   Which may or may not include Temple.

As Temple digs into the man’s untimely demise she finds plenty of suspect and greedy humans swarming around the ailing Aunt Violet, who means to leave her estate to her resident cats.  Temple thinks she’s close to solving the case, but it becomes clear to Midnight Louie, Temple’s roommate and ace feline detective, that there are more deaths both human and feline coming. Add in the return of a mysterious stalker from the past, and it's murder and mayhem on all fronts for Temple, Louie, and the ones they love in the newest story in the Midnight Louie mystery series.

 


Cat in a Quicksilver Caper: A Midnight Louie Mystery

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Midnight Louie, alley-cat extraordinaire and Las Vegas's hairiest, hard-boiled PI, finds himself literally walking a tightrope when a fabulous museum opening at one of Sin City's swankiest casinos is marred by a little thing like death.

Louie's loyal roommate, feisty PR freelancer Temple Barr, has snagged the commission of her career: repping the opening exhibition of the Russian Czars' priceless treasures at the New Millennium Hotel, the apex of which is the Czar Alexander Scepter, a priceless jewel-encrusted artifact.

Trouble is, the hotel has booked an aerial magic act right above the exhibition.

Temple works at a breakneck pace to coordinate this logistical nightmare. Tragedy ensues when a performer dies right above where the collection will be displayed and the police threaten to shut everything down. But the word "no" isn't one heard often in Las Vegas when money is involved and the show (or shows) must go on. Just as things seem to be working perfectly, another performer dies…and the scepter vanishes. The culprits could be international art thieves, Russian mafioso, or Chechen rebels out to embarrass the current Russian government.

Or it could be someone else, perhaps someone Temple knows all too well . . . .

Temple and Louie both have enemies in the magic act--evil magician Shangri-La and her curare-nailed performing Siamese cat, Hyacinth--and on the ground--ever-suspicious homicide lieutenant Carmen Molina, who's itching to pin the heist and murders on Temple's significant other, ex-magician and sometimes ex-spy Max Kinsella, now oddly AWOL. Worse, as Temple and Louie's separate investigations bring them both close to the truth, it's clear that someone has decided to hang them out to die too.

Can fancy footwork and detection save our intrepid duo?

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Deaths & funerals - Atlanta Journal Constitution
Deaths & funeralsDouglas County Sylvia Anne Harwell, 75, of Douglasville died Wednesday. The body will be cremated. Memorial service, 11 am Monday, St. Theresa Catholic Church; Whitley-Garner at Rosehaven. Carol J. Griffiths, 62, of College Park died Monday.

What's next for Carrie Vaughn and KITTY
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Tea Table (Updated Thursday, May 28, 2009) - Petoskey News-Review
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POtPOURRI: What's in a name? - Alberta Daily Herald Tribune
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WITC-Rice Lake names graduates - Barron News Shield
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