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The Alarm of the Black Cat
Series: An American Mystery Classic
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The Alarm of the Black Cat
This classic mystery features a family feud, feline intervention, and the spirited septuagenarian sleuth from The Cat Saw Murder.
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A strange encounter with a little girl named Claudia and a dead toad sparks elderly detective fiction fan Rachel Murdock's obsessive curiosity, and she winds up renting the house next door just to see how things play out. But soon after she and her cat Samantha move in, Rachel realises they've landed right in the middle of a deadly love triangle that's created animosity among the three families who now surround her.
When Rachel finds Claudia's great-grandmother dead in her basement, she reaches out to a friend in the LAPD to solve the crime. They soon learn the three households have been torn apart by one husband's infidelity and a complicated will that could lead to a fortune. In a house plagued by forbidden love, regret, and greed, Rachel will have to trust her intuition, as well as Samantha's instincts, to survive—and keep Claudia out of the hands of a killer whose work has just begun…
Series: An American Mystery Classic
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The book features the character Miss Rachel Murdock, who is lauded as an appealing and delightful literary figure reminiscent of Jessica Fletcher. Critics from the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus praise the novel for its charming protagonist and alluring prose, delighting fans of Golden Age mysteries and Miss Marple alike.
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ISBN: 9781613163931
Publisher: Penzler Publishers
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 04 April 2023
Country: United States
Imprint: American Mystery Classics
Contributors:
- Introduction and notes by David Handler
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 25.0mm
Width: 145.0mm
Height: 211.0mm
Weight: 377g
Pages: 288
About the Author
Dolores Hitchens (1907–1973) was a highly prolific mystery author who wrote under multiple pseudonyms and in a range of styles. A large number of her books were published under the D. B. Olsen moniker (under which her "Cat" series was originally published), but she is perhaps best remembered today for her later novel, Fool's Gold, published under her own name, which was adapted as Band a part by Jean-Luc Godard. David Handler is the Edgar Award-winning, critically acclaimed author of several bestselling mystery series. He began his career as a New York City reporter, and wrote his first two novels—Kiddo (1987) and Boss (1988)—about his Los Angeles childhood. In 1988 he published The Man Who Died Laughing, the first of his long-running series of mysteries starring ghostwriter Stuart Hoag and his faithful basset hound Lulu.
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