How to Tail a Cat

Informationen zum Autor REBECCA M. HALE worked as a patent attorney in the San Francisco Bay Area before writing her New York Times bestselling Cats and Curios Mystery series. Rebecca and her two cats now live in Colorado. Klappentext WHEN IS A WHITE ALLIGATOR A RED HERRING? Okay! granted! an albino alligator on the loose in San Francisco is pretty darn exciting. But my two cats! Rupert and Isabella! and I have better things to do than tail a reptile from Nob Hill to Fisherman's Wharf. We're investigating the mysterious Steinhart brothers! the 1900s-era benefactors who provided the original funding for Clive the alligator's aquarium. Follow the money! as my uncle Oscar used to say… In the media circus surrounding Clive! one clown gets a little too close to the renegade gator-our very own aspiring mayor! Montgomery Carmichael. We'd hate to see Monty meet an undignified end! but we're on a hunt of our own-for Uncle Oscar's latest treasure. Of course! that's assuming the whole thing isn't a crock… Leseprobe Introduction A velvet fog draped over San Francisco’s steep hills, the blank canvas forming the curtained backdrop to a theater’s stage. November had begun with a few short days of Indian summer, but the opening act had been whisked away by the month’s main attraction, a mysterious gray character who skulked through the shrouded streets, erasing the sky and blurring the edges of the city’s pastel-colored buildings. Off in the distance, a foghorn bellowed out a warning to a ship approaching the Golden Gate Bridge. The low hooting honk echoed through the bay, floating up into the mist-masked hills that housed the Presidio’s former military post before sinking into the murky depths of Mountain Lake. A slender white cat with orange-tipped ears and tail sat on a bench near the lake’s southern rim, staring intently through the soupy haze at an object floating in the water about twenty feet from the shoreline. The tip end of Isabella’s long pipelike tail strummed the bench, an outer sign of her inner contemplation. Her slim shoulders hunched forward; her front claws dug into the seat’s worn wooden planks. Blue eyes glittering, she tilted her head inquisitively. There was something decidedly unnatural about the ghostly creature inhabiting the lake. On the bench beside Isabella, a fluffy feline of similar coloring and far greater girth let out a satisfied burp as he rolled himself into an upright position. Rupert smacked his lips and let loose a wide, sloppy yawn. His belly was still digesting the fried chicken dinner he’d devoured a few hours earlier. Isabella issued a disparaging glance at her brother’s bulging stomach; then she resumed her surveillance of the lake. On a short rise above the far embankment, a streetlight lit a jungle gym’s shiny metal bars and, in the parking lot beyond, gave a dim glow to the large white van that had carried the cats, their person, and the vehicle’s owner to this isolated spot at the heart of the crowded city. The moist, pink padding on Isabella’s nose quivered as she sniffed the scents of the surrounding wildlife. Her ears widened, taking in the sounds of the night. A pair of squirrels rustled in the leaves beneath a wooly grove of cypress . . . a raccoon rummaged through a nearby Dumpster . . . a homeless man asleep on the grass let out a whiffling snore . . . and a tall, skinny fellow in a rubber wet suit and flippers clomped through the brush at the edge of the lake. “Are you sure this is a good idea?” Isabella heard her person ask as Montgomery Carmichael stopped to fit a snorkel mask over his narrow face. Isabella glanced up at the vacant sky and pondered the question. Would it be such a terrible thing if their pesky neighbor was devoured by a hungry albino alligator? Isabella’s whiskers twitched skeptically as Monty...

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca M Hale, Rebecca M. Hale
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.09.2012
• EAN: 9780425251294
• ISBN: 978-0-425-25129-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 168 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Cats and Curios Mystery; Cats and Curios Mystery
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense