1st in my favorite series. Joe Grey, a big silver tom with white on nose, chest & paws can talk to humans. Lady friend Dulcie, a petite brown & peach tabby can too. They solve a murder; foil car thieves & more. Kate Osborne can change between woman & cat. Joe's Clyde Damen, Dulcie's Wilma Getz & police chief Max Harper are the key humans. (Squeamish beware, cats hunt & eat prey in graphic detail)

Murphy, Pewter & Tucker find a dying man. The autopsy shows rabies & sets off a scare in Crozet, Va. Harry & Miranda quit the Post Office when they learn the new PO won't allow the animals. A clue to a missing person from years ago & horse breeding records are the mystery. Rev. Herb Jones celebrates the 30th Anniversary of his ministry. His cat Elocution & Cazenovia also appear. (12th in series)

Marmalade (Marmy) has long yellow-orange fur with white tummy, feet & chin. She’s “not fat…just comfortably padded.” She lives & “works” with 49 yr old librarian Bisque (Biscuit) McKee (“Widelap” to Marmy) in the small town of Martinsville, GA. Biscuit marries the town’s only Police Officer Bob & with Marmalade’s help they all solve a year old murder of photographer killed in the library. #1/4+

This is the first of 3 designed for the young reader (recommended grades 3-5). Mr. Stink (AKA James Edward Bristlefur) British secret agent of MI9 & International cat of mystery is the star of this series that if they were a movie genre it would be Film Noir. (Illustrated in black and white). Dossier 002 To Scratch a Thief; Dossier 003 You Only Have Nine Lives.

Eileen O’Kelly, dainty black feline PI in 1912 Boston, tackles cases involving anthropomorphic cat characters sous-chef Marcel; calico Inn owner Miss Clara; teen Tosca Vivaldi; Siamese Mrs. Avery Johnstone III; grocer Mr. Herbie; baseballer Smokey Jack Slattery (brown tiger); catnip grower Mr. Groveland & more. This lady gumshoe solves crimes worthy of Sherlock Holmes. Delightful illustrations.

Joe & Dulcie solve artist's murder, foils art thief & tips cops to planned burglaries by anonymus phone calls & talks with their humans Clyde & Wilma. Wilma's niece Charlie joins the cast & sketches Dulcie. 2nd in series

Joe, Dulcie & the Kit work on the mystery around lost historic letters, a novelist/playwright & the 5 members of the Senior Survival Club who find their retirement house. The Kit becomes an impromptu co-star with senior Cora Lee.

Joe rescues 2 half great dane puppies. Dulcie is fascinated by Irish tales of talking cats. Kit, a black & brown tortoiseshell kitten leaves the clowder of feral cats on Hellhag Hill when she meets Joe & Dulcie who also talk. Together they solve murders, uncover a scam & protect their various human companions.

Max & Charlie's wedding is interrupted by a bomb when the Kit warns Clyde. The wedding takes place later in the village green with Joe, Dulcie & the Kit attending. The cats have to clear Ryan of murdering her ex; uncover a Meth lab & stop a vendetta. All 3 cats are now police snitches.

The 3 cats investigate the murder of a aging film star; help a runaway 12 yr. old girl hiding in the library; & solve the mystery behind some old missing children cases. Dulcie learns about her kittenhood & mother. Many references to some beloved childrens books: Narnia, Hobbit, Alice in Wonderland, Harry Potter & The Secret Garden. Deals with death & possible afterlike. Three hanky ending

Louie & lady love the Divine Yvette, a silver Persian, reunite at a Stripper Convention where a serial killer is loose. Louie's roommate goes undercover selling G-strings while Louie detects. Free-to-be-feline food becomes running joke.

Louie upstages tiger striped Maurice at the filming of a A La Cat food commercial starring lady love, the Divine Yvette. Roommate Temple Barr searches for Stuart Weizman Pave collection shoes with a likeness of Louie while helping Louie & Midnight Louise solve 2 murders at a Romance Writer's Convention.

Warned by Maurice One's Ghost (Emerald Eye), Louie suspects Maurice Two will try to kill him as they vie for the job of spokecat & costar to the Divine Yvette in 3 commercials. Yvette's human blames Louie for the soon to be litter of kittens & takes Louie to a Plastic Surgeon. The battle for spokescat continues in "Golden Garland" where Louie meets Yvette's sister the Sublime Solange.

A new Las Vegas attraction, the Kingdome, a tribute to all things Elvis opens with a Elvis contest & 2 death. Louie is helped by Chatter, an Elvis clad chimp, plus 2 horses, 2 dogs & a snake. Louie's roommate Temple plays Priscilla with the Fontana Brothers as 9 different Elvis impersonators. There's lots of Elvis trivia in this light hearted tale(Tail?).

Louie & Louise befriend Big Cats Butch (AKA Mr. Lucky, panther) & Osiris (Leopard) with the aid of 2 Yorkies, Golda & Groucho. Osiris is stolen from his magician partner & set up for the murder of the owner of a canned hunt outfit. Louie & lady love Yvette appear in court when Temple sues Ms. Ashleigh for what she did to Louie (“Flamingo Fedora).

Louie, Louise (Midnight Inc. Investigations) & Temple go undercover at a reality TV show search for a Teen/Tween Queen. Other cats include Lt. Molina’s daughter’s tiger kittens Catarina & Tabitha, landlady Electra Lark’s psychic Birman Karma, Louie’s love the Divine Yvette & her sister Solange and a cameo by Peter & Paul the convent cats. This is a fun and complicated mystery.

Louie relocates Ma Barker & gang to the Circle Ritz. Lucky & Kahlua (black panther & leopard) are in a magic act at a casino’s exhibit of Russian treasures. Magician Shangri-la & cat Hyacinth return. Squeaker (chocolate point Siamese shelter cat body double for Hyacinth) is helped by Louie & Louise to escape. Squeaker finds a new home with choreographer Danny Dove. Matt & Temple move forward.

Mrs. Murphy (tiger cat), Pewter (Big grey cat)& Tee Tucker (Brave corgi) witness their human Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen remarried Fair (horse vet). Rev. Herb Jones preforms the ceremony while his 3 cats Elocution, Cazenovia & Lucy Fur break up a fight between Murphy & Pewter. The mystery about the Virginia Wine industry. (14th is series)