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In a dark, seedy world full of bad cats, a lone detective is puzzled by a city-spanning crime that has him licked.
Nub City is in the grip of a Depression, and its cat inhabitants are getting desperate. They'll resort to thievery, deception, and even murder to fill their furry bellies. It doesn't help that mice are an untouchable, endangered species, and the cats have to get their favorite food from illegal squeakeasies.
Only a few good cats keep the streets safe. One of those cats is Tiger Straight, private detective, who braves the city's underbelly to solve crimes with a sour-milk wit.
Tiger is hired by dangerous dame Connie Hant, who's lost her brothers through mysterious circumstances. With the help of his assistant Bug, Tiger prowls the mean streets of Nub, sniffing for clues and getting up to his whiskers in trouble.
As more murders occur and the mystery deepens, Tiger finds more than he bargained for-including a dizzy witness, an attempt by the bad guys to bury him in kitty litter, and a romance with a beautiful make-up artist. And what does Little Tim, a refuse-collecting cat, have to do with it all? Tiger is determined to find out in this epic detective thriller.
From the pages of the bestselling novel Milk Treading, The Cat Who Stole the Cream brings feline scribe Julius Kyle's hairball-spitting hero, Tiger Straight, vividly to life.
About the author
Nick Smith is a bestselling author, film director, producer and actor who lives in Western New York. He is a Contingency Professor at SUNY Fredonia. Originally from Bristol, England, he trained at the BBC Natural History Unit and has since worked on over 100 movies and TV productions, including the horror movie 8 Graves (2020), fang-favourite comedy The Little Vampire (2000), and the action movie Cold Soldiers (2018). His books include Cloudwalking, American Spirit, Songs for Persephone, and non-fiction guides to screenwriting and movie marketing. Milk Treading, the first novel in his Whiskers in the Dark series, has been featured on NPR's All Things Considered, translated into Italian, adapted into an Edinburgh Fringe Festival play, and praised by the New York Times, Tod Goldberg, Jilly Cooper and David Letterman.
