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Summary: Quotations from published reviews
Review: "Murphy's keen wit and intense love for all animals makes this third novel in her series the best yet. Murphy's style works because she's not afraid to face the seamy, clinical side of detection and forensics, yet there's no manipulation of the reader's feelings just for effect.... If you haven't read _Cat on the Edge_ or _Cat Under Fire_, you're in for a special treat! Funny, intelligent, fast-paced and sensitive--that's Shirley Rousseau Murphy's "Joe Grey" detective series!" --Library Cat Newsletter, Summer 1997.
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Summary: Engaging read
Review: As a cat lover and a lover of mystery novels, I'll read anything that combines these two fascinations. This is the first book in the Joe and Dulcie series that I have read. However, the cat sleuth theme is not handled as convincingly here as in stories written by, for example, Lilian Jackson Braun and Rita Mae Brown. While I can suspend disbelief and accept that cats may communicate non-verbally with their owners, or with each other, I was not able to suspend my disbelief and accept that two cats can speak and read English. Nevertheless this is an engaging, rainy-day read.
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Summary: Engaging read
Review: As a cat lover and a lover of mystery novels, I'll read anything that combines these two fascinations. This is the first book in the Joe and Dulcie series that I have read. However, the cat sleuth theme is not handled as convincingly here as in stories written by, for example, Lilian Jackson Braun and Rita Mae Brown. While I can suspend disbelief and accept that cats may communicate non-verbally with their owners, or with each other, I was not able to suspend my disbelief and accept that two cats can speak and read English. Nevertheless this is an engaging, rainy-day read.
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Summary: Intriquing whimsical murder mystery solved by feline sleuths
Review: I normally do not read mysteries, but the unique slant to this, and previous titles in this wonderful series has me hooked. Owned by 6 cats, I found this book, and its predicesors a "can't put the book down" kind of read. Joe and Dulcie are fabulously developed characters and Dulcie is absolutely adorable. After this last, I wonder when these two will have kittens, and if they will be as intelligent and vocal as their parents.(Hint) Thank you, Shirley R. Murphy, for such wonderful tales. My kind of books they are. Keep them coming.
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Summary: Intriquing whimsical murder mystery solved by feline sleuths
Review: I normally do not read mysteries, but the unique slant to this, and previous titles in this wonderful series has me hooked. Owned by 6 cats, I found this book, and its predicesors a "can't put the book down" kind of read. Joe and Dulcie are fabulously developed characters and Dulcie is absolutely adorable. After this last, I wonder when these two will have kittens, and if they will be as intelligent and vocal as their parents.(Hint) Thank you, Shirley R. Murphy, for such wonderful tales. My kind of books they are. Keep them coming.
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Summary: Cats with strong views on life : )
Review: I really enjoyed this light mystery. Of course, I'm a cat lover... I often chuckled at the voice, the viewpoint and the antics of these cats...who can talk to each other and understand humans very well. There were several mysteries weaving through this book. A good, fast read.
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Summary: Cats with strong views on life : )
Review: I really enjoyed this light mystery. Of course, I'm a cat lover... I often chuckled at the voice, the viewpoint and the antics of these cats...who can talk to each other and understand humans very well. There were several mysteries weaving through this book. A good, fast read.
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Summary: Winner of Muse Medallion and Best-of-the-Best Awards!
Review: This book was the winner of the 1998 Muse Medallion Award given by the Cat Writers' Association, and also its president's Best-of-the-Best Award. From a published review: "Murphy's keen wit and intense love for all animals makes this third novel in her series the best yet. Murphy's style works because she's not afraid to face the seamy, clinical side of detection and forensics, yet there's no manipulation of the reader's feelings just for effect.... Funny, intelligent, fast-paced and sensitive--that's Shirley Rousseau Murphy's "Joe Grey" detective series!" --Library Cat Newsletter, Summer 1997.
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Summary: More about loveable Joe Grey and Dulcie
Review: This time, the two talking cat detectives come to the rescue of some old people at a home and also catch a "cat burglar". When a few of the people at the home are suspicious and scared, Dulcie starts investigating and, as always, manages to get Joe Grey involved too. How they are everywhere to find out what goes on and how they can do surveilance and eavesdropping so much easier than a human are quite entertaining. Always, they keep the police captain jumping with their anonymous phone tips and keep him worried because he suspects the two cats are involved in the crime solving. He won't allow himself to believe such things and that keeps him worried. This is a great job of cat sleuthing and is an interesting book.
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Summary: More about loveable Joe Grey and Dulcie
Review: This time, the two talking cat detectives come to the rescue of some old people at a home and also catch a "cat burglar". When a few of the people at the home are suspicious and scared, Dulcie starts investigating and, as always, manages to get Joe Grey involved too. How they are everywhere to find out what goes on and how they can do surveilance and eavesdropping so much easier than a human are quite entertaining. Always, they keep the police captain jumping with their anonymous phone tips and keep him worried because he suspects the two cats are involved in the crime solving. He won't allow himself to believe such things and that keeps him worried. This is a great job of cat sleuthing and is an interesting book.
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