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I'm sure I read this ages ago, but I don't remember much about it. Maybe I'll have to pick it up again.
This is an enjoyable collection of mysteries centered around a variety of animals who manage to solve the human mysteries.Short stories by the likes of Lawrence Block, Lilian Jackson Braun,J.A. Jance, Nancy Picard and more. It is edited by Carole Nelson Douglas, Midnight Louie narrates the lead-ins to each and there is a short biography of each author at the end of each story, complete with their pet population or connection.A fun read, great for when you only get bits of time.
An assortment of stories featuring animals as crimesolvers, most by authors I've not read before. None of the stories were super-cheesy and unrealistic, but none were OMG awesome either. In some cases, I felt like if the stories were a 5 chapter book, we got chapters 1,2, and 5 where there was lots of background on the mystery, then all of a sudden it was solved, as if chapters 3 and 4 were condensed into a few sentences at the end rather than taking readers through in chronological order. Other...
I read this collection of short stories during a recent short break holiday. I read one each evening and my favourites were the first and last of the stories.
I enjoyed this collection of mystery short stories all featuring pets or captive animals. The editor is Midnight Louie, the cat detective in Carole Nelson Douglas’s mysteries. The cover is perfect: a Tasmanian devil in a 1940’s gumshoe outfit, surrounded by other pet detectives such as a cat, a dog, a raccoon, an opossum, a bird, and a hamster. My favorite story is “On the Take”, about a cop with too many cats. The hamster in “A Hamster of No Importance” is the best of the pet detectives, with a...
A really nice set of short stories often revealing more about human than animal nature.
This is book of short stories where each mystery involves some sort of furry (or feathered) creature. Some of them were much better than others. I, of course, was quite amused by Midnight Louie's introductions to each of the stories. I think my favourite entry wasn't even a story, though. It was Elizabeth Ann Scarborough's lovely tribute to one of her own cats.
Interesting mix of stories; some I liked very much and that made me want to read more by those authors, and some just ok.
