Carole Nelson Douglas Books In Order

Sword and Circlet Books In Publication Order

  1. Six of Swords (1982)
  2. Exiles of the Rynth (1984)
  3. Keepers of Edanvant (1987)
  4. Heir of Rengarth (1988)
  5. Seven of Swords (1989)

Probe Books In Publication Order

  1. Probe (1985)
  2. Counterprobe (1988)

Irene Adler Books In Publication Order

  1. Good Night, Mr. Holmes (1990)
  2. Good Morning, Irene (1991)
  3. Irene At Large (1992)
  4. Irene’s Last Waltz (1994)
  5. Chapel Noir (2001)
  6. Castle Rouge (2002)
  7. Femme Fatale (2003)
  8. Spider Dance (2004)
  9. The Private Wife of Sherlock Holmes (2012)

Taliswoman Trilogy Books In Publication Order

  1. Cup of Clay (1991)
  2. Seed Upon the Wind (1992)

Midnight Louie Books In Publication Order

  1. Catnap (1992)
  2. Pussyfoot (1993)
  3. Cat On A Blue Monday (1994)
  4. Cat in a Crimson Haze (1995)
  5. Cat in a Diamond Dazzle (1996)
  6. Cat with an Emerald Eye (1997)
  7. Cat in a Flamingo Fedora (1997)
  8. Cat in a Golden Garland (1997)
  9. Cat on a Hyacinth Hunt (1998)
  10. Cat in an Indigo Mood (1999)
  11. Cat in a Jeweled Jumpsuit (1999)
  12. Cat in a Kiwi Con (2000)
  13. Cat in a Leopard Spot (2001)
  14. Cat in a Midnight Choir (2002)
  15. Cat in a Neon Nightmare (2003)
  16. Cat in an Orange Twist (2004)
  17. Cat in a Hot Pink Pursuit (2005)
  18. Cat in a Quicksilver Caper (2006)
  19. Cat in a Red Hot Rage (2007)
  20. Cat in a Sapphire Slipper (2008)
  21. Cat in a Topaz Tango (2009)
  22. Cat in an Ultramarine Scheme (2010)
  23. Cat in a Vegas Gold Vendetta (2011)
  24. Fruit of the Tomb (2012)
  25. Cat in a White Tie and Tails (2012)
  26. Cat in an Alien X-Ray (2013)
  27. Cat in a Yellow Spotlight (2014)
  28. Cat in a Zebra Zoot Suit (2015)
  29. Cat in an Alphabet Endgame (2016)

Midnight Louie Cafe Noir Mystery Books In Publication Order

  1. Absinthe Without Leave (2018)

Midnight Louie Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. White House Pet Detectives (2002)

Cat and a Playing Card Books In Publication Order

  1. The Cat and the King of Clubs (1999)
  2. The Cat and the Queen of Hearts (1999)
  3. The Cat and the Jill of Diamonds (2000)
  4. The Cat and the Jack of Spades (2000)

Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator Books In Publication Order

  1. Dancing With Werewolves (2007)
  2. Brimstone Kiss (2008)
  3. Vampire Sunrise (2009)
  4. Silver Zombie (2010)
  5. Virtual Virgin (2011)
  6. Monster Mash (2013)

Crystal Phoenix Books In Publication Order

  1. Crystal Days (1990)
  2. Crystal Nights (1990)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Amberleigh (1980)
  2. In Her Prime (1982)
  3. Her Own Person (1982)
  4. Best Man To Die (1983)
  5. Lady Rogue (1983)
  6. Azure Days, Quicksilver Nights (1985)
  7. The Exclusive (1986)
  8. Fair Wind, Fiery Star (1994)
  9. A Wall Street Christmas Carol (2011)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. Scrogged (2011)
  2. Alice Holds the Cards (2012)
  3. The Rakehell’s Christmas Angel (2013)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. Once Upon a Midnight Noir (2012)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Angel Christmas (1995)
  2. Marilyn (1997)
  3. Midnight Louie’s Pet Detectives (1998)
  4. Much Ado About Murder (2002)
  5. Death By Dickens (2004)
  6. Thou Shalt Not Kill (2005)
  7. Unusual Suspects (2008)
  8. Hex Appeal (2012)
  9. Denim, Diamonds and Death: Bouchercon Anthology 2019 (2019)

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Carole Nelson Douglas Books Overview

Good Night, Mr. Holmes

Winner of the American Mystery Award for Best Novel of Romantic Suspense, and the Romantic Times Award for Best Historical Mystery Miss Irene Adler, the beautiful American opera singer who once outwitted Sherlock Holmes, is also a superb detective, as Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker can attest. Even Holmes himself must admit albeit grudgingly that she acquits herself competently.

But in matters of the heart she encounters difficulty. The Crown Prince of Bohemia tall, blonde, and handsome proves to be a cad. Will dashing barrister Godfrey Norton be able to convince Irene that not all handsome men are cut from the same broadcloth?
Guy Ritchie is directing a new film for Warner Bros. based on the life of Sherlock Holmes, due out in the fall of 2009. Robert Downey Jr. is Holmes, Jude Law is his able sidekick Dr. Watson. Rachel McAdams portrays Irene Adler, a femme fatale who Holmes always considered to be the woman and who outwitted Holmes when few could.

Good Morning, Irene

In Paris with her husband, Godfrey Norton, and her friend, Penelope, Victorian opera star and amateur sleuth Irene Adler becomes involved in the case of a corspe that has washed up on the shores of the Seine. NYT. PW.

Irene At Large

Alive and well despite the widely published accounts of her death, diva Irene Adler and her dashing husband Godfrey Norton are taking coffee with their friend Nell Huxleigh in a Parisian sidewalk caf when a stranger dressed in Oriental garb falls at their feet. It is not Irene’s beauty that has felled him, but a dose of poison and even more surprisingly, the friends learn as he recovers that he is an Englishman! The mysterious young man informs them that he is seeking a Dr. Watson who tended his wounds at the disastrous battle of Maiwand, a man whose life he says is now in mortal danger. The hunt is on and their search will lead them to a command performance for the Empress of all the Russias and to Sarah Bernhardt, into a channel steamer and at last to the doorstep of 221 Baker Street, where they will discover deadly secrets both past and present.

Irene’s Last Waltz

A novel of suspense featuring Sherlock Holmes and Irene AdlerOriginally titled Irene’s Last WaltzThe ever irresistible Irene Adler, her dashing barrister husband, Godfrey Norton, and the indomitable Miss Nell Huxleigh have arrived at last as their French cottage having survived dastardly plots, Russian spies, pistol wielding criminals, and the occasional cobra. The happy trio seeks nothing but rest and peace but Irene has always chafed under idle conditions, and Paris, she says, ‘is pretty and urbane, but hardly a center of excitement.’ So when Charles Frederick Worth, the Parisian king of couture, invites Irene to become his ‘mannequin de ville,’ to wear the fabulous worth creations to stimulate his trade, Irene leaps at the chance. But what was a joyous lark soon turns into a journey that can lead to disgrace, dishonor, and death when Irene, Nell, and Godfrey are drawn into a series of events that will compel Irene to the one place that she daren’t go and the one man she must not confront Prague and the King of Bohemia.

Chapel Noir

Before Caleb Carr and Laurie R. King, Carole Nelson Douglas gave readers a compelling look into Victoriana with a bold new detective character: Irene Adler, the only woman to ever outwit Sherlock Holmes. An operatic diva and the intellectual equal of most of the men she encounters, Irene is as much at home with disguises and a revolver as with high society and haute couture. Chapel Noir is the fifth book in Carole Nelson Douglas’s critically acclaimed Irene Adler series, which reinvents ‘the woman’ that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle introduced in ‘A Scandal in Bohemia’ as the hero*ine of her own extravagant adventures. This time readers are thrust into one of the darkest periods of criminal fact and fiction when two courtesans are found brutally slaughtered in the lavish boudoir of a Paris house. No woman should ever see such horrors, authorities declare, but a powerful sponsor has insisted that Irene investigate the case, along with her faithful companion, sheltered parson’s daughter Penelope Huxleigh. But does anyone really seek the truth, or do they wish only to bury it with the dead women for there is a worse horror that will draw Irene and her archrival, Sherlock Holmes, into a duel of wits with a fiendish opponent. These Paris killings mimic a series of gruesome murders that terrorized London only months before, in a dangerous and disreputable part of town known as Whitechapel…

Castle Rouge

The escapee from a lunatic asylum who was masquerading as Jack the Ripper has escaped againthis time from the custody of the Paris police. Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler fear that the Ripper will soon carve another bloody trail. Holmes rejoins Watson in London to reinvestigate the White Chapel murders of the previous fall. Irene wants to participate but her companion Nell was abducted in Paris, and her barrister husband Godfrey has vanished in the wilds of Bohemia. Though Irene has many friends in high places, this time the Baron de Rothschild, Sarah Bernhardt, and the Prince of Wales can offer only money and good will. So Irene turns to some unusual help to pursue the Ripper, including Bram Stoker, the theatrical manager who would later pen Dracula. The trail will lead back to Bohemia and on to new and bloodier atrocities before pursuers and prey reunite at a remote castle in Transylvania, where the Ripper is cornered and fully unveiled at last…
in an astounding yet chillingly logical answer to the question the whole world is asking: Who was Jack the Ripper?

Femme Fatale

rene Adler, the only woman to outwit Sherlock Holmes, has competed and sometimes cooperated with the famous fictional detective in six popular novels featuring her own investigations in London, Paris, Prague, and Monaco. All along, the American diva turned detective has managed to conceal her past, even from her dashing husband, Godfrey Norton, and her devoted companion, Nell Huxleigh. But now daring American journalist Nellie Bly has wired astounding news: Irene’s mother is the target of an assassin. Irene insists that she doesn’t have a mother, but a series of bizarre killings in New York City draws her reluctantly back to her native country, where she must race a murderer to find her mother, who may turn out to be the most notorious woman of the nineteenth century. As Irene forges a trail into her own hidden past, Nellie Bly draws another ace investigator across the Atlantic to join in the hunt for a serial killer. He’s the last man on earth whom Irene Adler wants to discover anything about her shocking past…
Sherlock Holmes.

Spider Dance

Opera singer. Adventuress. American abroad. Irene Adler is all of this…
and is also the only woman to ever have outwitted the great man, Sherlock Holmes. After numerous adventures Irene has finally come home, not out of loyalty to her native shores but because of a baffling puzzle, and the one thing that haunts her. Irene has no real memory of her childhood and has spent most of her life creating a persona to fit her passions. When Daredevil reporter Nelly Bly lures Irene to America by hinting that she knows of Irene’s parentage, Irene takes the bait and in doing so, embarks upon a pursuit of the most notorious woman of the nineteenth century. Before the intrigue ridden quest is over, Irene will uncover murderous international political conspiracies, lost treasure, and finally…
the full, shocking secret of her birth.

Cup of Clay

A Minnesota reporter, suddenly transported to the Land of Veil, joins a hero on his quest to find the Cup of Earth, and when she inadvertently snags the talisman from his grasp, she upsets the entire balance of nature in the strange world.

Seed Upon the Wind

In the sequel to Cup of Clay, Alison Carver, holder of the fabled Cup of Clay, is forced to leave the safety of Minnesota and enter the enchanted land of Veil. AB. PW.

Catnap

Catnap is the first book in Carole Nelson Douglas’s delightful Midnight Louie mystery series where we meet that fabulous 20 lb black cat about town and his sometimes roomate/owner cutie Temple Barr. Together they solve crimes and find love in sinful Las Vegas.

Pussyfoot

Midnight Louie is aprowl again and the game is definitely afoot when petite public relations freelancer Temple Barr finds herself at a striptease convention, up to her spike heels in muscle bound males, siliconed females…
and murder. As Temple tracks the killer, Midnight Louie pursues his own investigation. Now that fading film star Savannah Ashleigh and the Divine Yvette, her purebred Persian and Louie’s platinum haired lost love are among the endangered, the tomcat sleuth will leave no rhinestone unturned to find the murderer…

Cat On A Blue Monday

Carole Nelson Douglas, award winning author of the acclaimed Good Night, Mr. Holmes, captivated a host of new readers with Catnap, the first novel in an irresistible new mystery series featuring Midnight Louie a jet black tomcat with an appetite for mystery and an attitude right out of Damon Runyon and his red haired human companion Temple Barr, a publicist in the glittering Las Vegas media scene. Pussyfoot, the sequel to Catnap, was an even bigger success, and mystery fans have been eagerly awaiting the next volume in the series. Cat On A Blue Monday is well worth the wait. Someone is stalking prize winning purebreds at the annual Las Vegas Cat Show, and Midnight Louie is off on the prowl again. As Louie, aided by a telepathic Birman cat named Karma, follows the scent of the killer, Temple is delving into the past of Matt Devine, the handsome young hotline counselor who’s captured her heart. Soon Louie and Temple find themselves up to their tails in blackmail, extortion, and cold blooded murder. Fans of foul play, feisty female detectives, and feline forensics are sure to find Cat On A Blue Monday just their saucer of milk.

Cat in a Crimson Haze

Midnight Louie, the best tomcat in the crime solving business, and his human partner, petite redheaded publicist Temple Barr, are once again in the thick of things in the city of sin. The manager of the Crystal Phoenix, one of Las Vegas’s premier vacation spot, has hired Temple Barr to help clean up the hotel’s image, but soon more than the Phoenix’s reputation is in danger. The phoenix becomes prey to mysterious saboteurs whose little pranks just happen to keep endangering Temple’s life.

When Temple tangles with ex priests, local police, FBI agents, obnoxious reporters, and a pasell of semi reformed mafiosi who wear pastel zoot suits, it’s up to Midnight Louie to get her out of knot…
. before it’s too late.

Cat in a Diamond Dazzle

Midnight Louie is back!…
along with the human black tomcat condescends to spend his days with: Temple Barr, a redheaded publicist whose love for expensive shoes is matched only be her affinity for trouble. This time trouble shows up on her doorstep, in the form of a boyfriend previously gone missing…
during a murder investigation. No fool she, Temple decides it’s time for a break. A romance writers’ convention complete with a male model Incredible Hunk pageant sounds like just what the doctor ordered. Unfortunately, a pair of dazzling Cinderella shoes goes missing, one of the would be Fabios ends up dead, and Temple’s investigations into the matters get more complicated and more dangerous than she planned. Luckily, there’s a smart and smart mouthed cat prowling around.

Cat with an Emerald Eye

Our furry feline friend has dipped his paws into the muddy waters of murder once again only this time, nothing is as it seems. Temple Barr, a redheaded public relations expert and Louie’s human partner, won’t be trick or treating this Halloween Eve: Her landlady, the eccentric Electra, is dragging her to a seance intended to resurrect the spirit of Harry Houdini. Midnight Louie scoffs, but when the seance ends abruptly with the murder of a famous psychic, his well trained nose smells something fishy, and it’s not his dinner. When Temple discovers that the dead man was a debunker of false psychic phenomena, making any other supposed psychic in the room a prime suspect, she knows there’s more to this case than meets the eye.

Cat in a Flamingo Fedora

That rough and tumble black tomcat Midnight Louie and his flame haired human companion, temple barr, think shooting a cat food commercial will allow them to play hooky from mayhem. But life is never easy for the vivacious pair, and Temple and Louie are center stage when beloved comic actor and notorious ladies’ man Darren Cooke is shot to death. Cooke had asked Temple to find out if a mysterious stalker was his unacknowledged daughter, and she is determined to find out the truth. But the search for truth raised a dangerous question: Was this really a murder, or was Cooke a tortured funnyman who finally rang down his own curtain.

Cat in a Golden Garland

That rough and tumble black tomcat Midnight Louie and his flame haired human companion Temple Barr are looking forward to a Christmas vacation spent in the Big Apple. But there’s more than merriment to be found in New York City there’s a murder to be solved, and Louie’s’ on the move. When an ad agency’s head honcho dons his traditional Santa suit for a company party, Midnight Louie scents a murderous trap, and soon someone has put jolly old St. Nick into permanent deep freeze. Meanwhile, Louie’s rival in romance is still trying to turn him into kitty litter, and Mystifying Max the Magician isn’t about to let the holidays pass with making a surprise proposal that leave Temple breathless. Can one little kitty apprehend the perpetrator, play Cupid, and make everyone’s Christmas bright? If his name is Midnight Louie, anything is possible!

Cat on a Hyacinth Hunt

Back in Las Vegas after a holiday trip to the big apple, feline detective Midnight Louie witnesses death on the Nile when the battling Egyptian barges outside the Oasis hotel bring a dead body to the surface. The soggy victim is well known to Louie’s redheaded, high heeled human companion, Temple Barr: her two best beaux are loosely related to the drowned man, and both have reasons to want him dead. Perhaps Temple can finally choose between handsome hotline counselor Matt Devine and the mysterious magician, Ma Kinsella by finding out which of them is a killer.

And then there are the new girls in town: an inscrutable lady magician named Shangri La, who may play a bigger role in this scenario than anyone might think; and her winsome Siamese familiar, who may solve Louie’s problems by giving him the key to her heart or the key to solving the mystery.

Cat in an Indigo Mood

Midnight Louie, that beloved, jet black feline sleuth with a nose for the notorious, is on the prowl once again and the beat he walks is as dangerous as ever. At the Blue Dahlia, the forties style music club where hard boiled homicide lieutenant Carmen Molina moonlights secretly as a torch singer, things are not as easygoing as they seem. When her gig ends, she can’t miss the dead body lying next to her car on the moonlit asphalt of the parking lot, with the words ‘she left’ spray painted nearby. Soon, another anonymous woman found in a parking lot across town joins the unidentified woman in death. Is a serial killer at work in Molina’s backyard? And will the tough lieutenant have to bite her tongue and resort to the despised help of amateur sleuth Temple Barr to crack the case? Maybe the wily police lieutenant has more devious plans in mind. Certainly neither of Temple’s two love interests, hotline counselor Matt Devine and the magician undercover man Max Kinsella, is far from committing crimes of the heart or of homicide as the double murder case unfolds. Meanwhile, Louie reluctantly finds himself walking on the wild side in partnership with his feisty if disapproving daughter, Midnight Louise, when a glamorous feline client seeks his help in finding her missing boyfriend. Can both Midnight and Temple reconcile themselves to working with others soon enough to solve their respective cases and keep themselves from ending up the same way?

Cat in a Jeweled Jumpsuit

Midnight Louie, jet black feline sleuth with an attitude, si on the prowl again and this tme to a rock’n’roll soundtrack. Louie’s human partner, Temple Barr, learns that the remodeling of a local hotel is being held up by a ghost and no ordinary ghost at that. In fact, the workmen sware it’s none otyher than that jumpsuit wearing King of Ronk’n’Roll, Elvis Presley. The opening of Las Vegas’s first Elvis themed attraction might explain this unscheduled appearance. But what of the death threats against the Priscilla Presley esque daughter of Crawford Buchanan, Temple’s professional enemy? And who is the late night caller to Temple’s former suitor, radio counselor Matt Devine, who sounds remarkably like the King of Rock ‘N Roll? When a dead Elvis is found, the question is not only whodunit, and why, but who the dead man really is. Could the King himself have been hiding behind the guise of his own imitators, and is he really dead again, or for the first time…
or not at all?

Cat in a Kiwi Con

Midnight Louie, the purring P.I., is a jet black sleuth making his twelfth outing in Carole Nelson Douglas’s Cat in a Kiwi Con. While his human partner, public relations whiz Temple Barr, and her significant other, ex magician Max Kinsella, are bespelled by murder most magical on a Las Vegas university campus, Louie has followed the lethal and lovely Siamese, Hyacinth, into the world’s largest science fiction and fantasy convention, GigantiCon.

They’re all there: Hercules and Xena, elves and aliens, captains and crew, and Godzillions of fans both in costume and out. When a prominent player is killed, not only is the method of death perplexing, but the suspects in this case are a very unusual cast of thousands. Soon it becomes clear that none of the investigators are safe in an atmosphere that provides cover not only for an unknown murderer, but for an antagonist in an alien guise who is after the hides of each and every one of them.

Joining in the fantasy in progress may be their only hope.

Cat in a Leopard Spot

Murder shows its teeth and claws for Midnight Louie readers when that jet black feline sleuth who thinks he’s Sam Spade returns to delight his legions of fans. This time, not only does Louie have to bail out his favorite investigative partner, public relations woman Temple Barr, but he has to save a fellow feline from a charge of Murder One. When a big game hunter is found dead with only a leopard for company, all of Louie’s and Temple’s allies and enemies converge on the case. And the fun really begins when the unofficial investigators learn the leopard is Osiris, a performing Big Cat who was kidnapped from his magician owner only days before the murder. Things get really wild when a cadre of ardent animal rights protestors secretly stakes out the premises, determined to stop the illegal killing at any price, even their own lives…
. Or someone else’s.

Cat in a Midnight Choir

The fourteenth Midnight Louie mysteryIn Cat in a Midnight Choir the black cat detective is hunting a mysterious and possibly murderous organization of renegade magicians called the Synth, which has been making Las Vegas too hot for some of Louies human friends. Louies daughter and her friends join the nations number one cat sleuth as he trails a Synth illusionist and her scheming Siamese assistant. While the felines battle black magic, Louies cherished roommate, plucky PR freelancer Temple Barr, is investigating the Synth despite the discouragement of homicide lieutenant C. R. Molina. Molina herself is secretly moonlighting as an undercover operative to nail the killer of a young stripper. The search has boiled down to two suspects: Temples current significant other, and Molinas ex lover. Unfortunately, proving either man the killer will seriously impact the lives of Molina and her daughter. As Louie and his human friends sink deeper into a lose lose situation of crime and punishment, there doesnt seem to be a way out, except another murder. Can Louie pull a rabbit out of a hat and stop the stripper killer? Will the killer this time turn out to be someone Louie knows…
and likes?

Cat in a Neon Nightmare

Cat in a Neon Nightmare is the fifteenth Midnight Louie mystery, and this tough talking tomcat is as feisty as ever, raising hell sometimes literally in Las Vegas, America’s Sin Capital.

The lavish hotels and the sham of wholesome fun may soothe the tourists, but sex and greed still fuel this town, and bad guys still abound. And Midnight Louie, the feline Sam Spade has his paws full keeping those he loves safe
.
This time Midnight Louie treads the lurid side of mystery’s mean streets when a call girl named Vassar is found lying dead on the neon ceiling above a Las Vegas casino. Suicide or homicide? If straight arrow radio shrink Matt Devine, the man most likely to have been Vassar’s unlikely last client, is charged for Vassar’s murder, everyone Louie knows is an accessory to the crime…
except for his ever loving roommate, PR whiz Temple Barr, who has been kept in the dark by both friends and enemies.

To save Matt’s future, Temple will have to crack the cover up with the unsuspected help of Midnight Inc. Investigations, now including a junior partner: Louie’s maybe daughter, Midnight Louise. Meanwhile, a hot new club in town, Neon Nightmare, has links to the mysterious Synth, a sinister association of magicians that may lie behind the string of unsolved deaths that have haunted Louie Company for months.

And with the psychotic stalker, Kitty the Cutter, still prowling, death is definitely in the cards for someone Temple knows very well, and not even Louie may be able to stop it.

Cat in an Orange Twist

Temple Barr is a sharp and sassy public relations ace in Las Vegas whose life is finally taking a turn for the better. Hard nosed homicide lieutenant Carmen Molina is too busy chasing after her own ex lover, rogue L.A. cop Rafi Nadir, to pursue Temple’s boyfriend, sexy magician Max Kinsella, and nobody Temple knows has been murdered…
at least, not in the past few weeks. Temple takes this downtime as a signal she should buy a new pair of Jimmy Choo spike heels, and accept the job of planning a glitzy week of opening events for a trendy new furniture showroom. Dealing with temperamental d cor mavens is no problem for a woman who’s saved leopards from big game hunters, tracked killers through strip clubs, calmed the cantankerous owners of Las Vegas’s most glamorous hotel, and seen the ghost of Elvis until the life of feng shui expert and media crowned domestic dominatrix Amelia Wong is threatened. Suddenly Temple is neck deep in trouble…
and bodies. And Temple has one more problem one she doesn’t even know about: her roommate Louie, and his maybe daughter Louise, have decided to make sure that Temple’s search for a killer furniture arrangement doesn’t mean curtains for her. Midnight Inc. Investigations, their PI firm, is on the case. The catch?Louie is Temple’s cat.

Cat in a Hot Pink Pursuit

Ace freelance PR woman and amateur detective Temple Barr is 30 going on 19 when she agrees to do homicide lieutenant Carmen Molina a big favor and go undercover as a contestant at Teen Idol, a TV reality show. The lieutenant is worried because someone is threatening the contestants including her own 13 year old daughter by leaving mutilated Barbie dolls all over Las Vegas. Reliving the years of melodrama and teen angst while acting as a nanny diversion is bad enough, but Temple is dismayed to discover her professional nemesis is in charge of PR for Teen Idol and, even worse, her romance novelist aunt has flown in from New York to be a judge. Can redheaded Temple fool her nearest and least dearest with a black dye job to complement her new punk persona, Xo Chlo Ozone? Temple is on her own among 28 unnatural blonds, who all say they’d kill to make the final cut and be named Teen Idol Queen…
and one of them might actually do it. Usually Temple has an ace or two up her sleeve, but Max Kinsella, Temple’s ex magician boyfriend, is AWOL plotting to infiltrate a sinister cabal of terrorist magicians, and neighbor slash sometime love interest Matt Devine is in Chicago, tracking down his shocking family roots. Luckily, there’s one one alpha male Temple can always lean on: Midnight Louie, her black alley cat roommate. Louie is already on the case, ensuring that all the ‘little dolls’ under his care debut on national TV as more than lovely corpses.

Cat in a Quicksilver Caper

Midnight Louie, alley cat extraordinaire and Las Vegas’s hairiest, hard boiled PI, finds himself literally walking a tightrope when a fabulous museum opening at one of Sin City’s swankiest casinos is marred by a little thing like death. Louie’s loyal roommate, feisty PR freelancer Temple Barr, has snagged the commission of her career: repping the opening exhibition of the Russian Czars’ priceless treasures at the New Millennium Hotel, the apex of which is the Czar Alexander Scepter, a priceless jewel encrusted artifact. Trouble is, the hotel has booked an aerial magic act right above the exhibition. Temple works at a breakneck pace to coordinate this logistical nightmare. Tragedy ensues when a performer dies right above where the collection will be displayed and the police threaten to shut everything down. But the word ‘no’ isn’t one heard often in Las Vegas when money is involved and the show or shows must go on. Just as things seem to be working perfectly, another performer dies and the scepter vanishes. The culprits could be international art thieves, Russian mafioso, or Chechen rebels out to embarrass the current Russian government. Or it could be someone else, perhaps someone Temple knows all too well…
. Temple and Louie both have enemies in the magic act evil magician Shangri La and her curare nailed performing Siamese cat, Hyacinth and on the ground ever suspicious homicide lieutenant Carmen Molina, who’s itching to pin the heist and murders on Temple’s significant other, ex magician and sometimes ex spy Max Kinsella, now oddly AWOL. Worse, as Temple and Louie’s separate investigations bring them both close to the truth, it’s clear that someone has decided to hang them out to die too. Can fancy footwork and detection save our intrepid duo?

Cat in a Red Hot Rage

Cat in a Red Hot Rage is the nineteenth title in Carole Nelson Douglas’s sassy Midnight Louie mystery series. This tough talking twenty pound tomcat PI is playing at the top of his game as he walks the walk and talks the talk on the mean streets of Las Vegas. Temple Barr and Midnight Louie are up to their tails in froufrou, chapeaux, and murder when the Red Hat Sisterhood convention hits Las Vegas. Electra Lark, Temple’s spirited landlady, has dragged her to the con. Accused of murder after a woman is found strangled with an official Red Hat Sisterhood scarf, Electra begs Temple to clear her name by posing as a pink hatter, an under fifty member of the organization. Louie and his partner in Midnight Investigations Inc., Midnight Louise, join the hunt for the killer at the Crystal Phoenix. They find old friends already there, including C movie actress Savannah Ashleigh, and her Persian cats, Louie’s ex love, the Divine Yvette, and her sister Solange. As Temple and Louie dig under all the makeup and shopping bags it becomes clear that a whole lot of folks want to crush or cash in on the red hot rage of female empowerment that is the Red Hat Sisterhood.

Cat in a Sapphire Slipper

Cat in a Sapphire Slipper is the twentieth title in Carole Nelson Douglas’s sassy Midnight Louie mystery series. The tough talking, twenty pound, tomcat PI is as feisty as ever as he and his gang try to keep his favorite roommate from losing her man.
PR honcho Temple Barr s romance novelist aunt Kit has wound up in a romantic plot of her own. She s snagged one of the most eligible bachelors on the Strip, one of the elder Fontana brothers, a silver tongued reputed ex mobster with a heart of gold. There is to be a wedding and where there is a wedding there is usually a bachelor party. Things go disastrously wrong when the entire party is hijacked and taken to a remote ranch out in the Nevada desert, a place where the women are wild and the sex is legal. And among the group? None other than Temple s own Matt, an ex priest. Truly a fish out of water, he soon comes upon a beautiful young woman who is quite naked and most thoroughly dead. Given the remoteness of the location with very few suspects on hand plus the Fontanas’ shady reputation this could be a very bad thing indeed. And Louie? Well, he managed to go along for the ride and once again it s up to that big old tomcat to bail out his humans and save the day.
Cat in a Sapphire Slipper is a fast paced, racy mystery with a loveable cast of characters and one terrific tough dude to keep them all in line.

Cat in a Topaz Tango

Temple Barr and Matt Devine make a cozy engaged couple, and the feisty redhead is all for her handsome radio host fiance staring in a week long televised Las Vegas charity event, ‘Dancing with the Celebs.’ But while ex priest Matt struggles to master the sexy moves of the tango, a killer stalks the dance floor. Not only is Matt in danger, but so is the lovely tween Mariah, daughter of homicide cop C. R. Molina, who is dancing in the Junior Divison of the show.

And so Temple gets dragooned into resurrecting her kicky teen persona, Zoe Chloe Ozone, now an Internet hottie, to ensure Matt and Mariah don’t foxtrot into a fatal mistep.

Where is Louie in all this? Well, he’s out and about, proving that he’s still the cat’s meow. But he’s got his paws full as he tries to keep all the various players in his little troupe from dancing right into death’s arms…
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Cat in an Ultramarine Scheme

Temple Barr, publicist extraordinaire, is itching to bring off her most dangerous and exciting assignment, helping to launch an endeavor that many a Vegas showmen have dreamed of: a Las Vegas mob museum/casino. While city powers that be hem and haw over doing an official project on the subject, the Family Fontana plans to connect two hotels with a ‘Chunnel of Crime’ featuring an underground speakeasy, a fast ‘ride’ through Vegas crime history by Gangsters custom limo sevice, and other fun attractions. Temple’s grand scheme to do a live ‘opening Bugsy Siegel’s vault’ media event built around a huge safe found buried underground produces a two day old body wearing white tie and tails. With Temple’s magician counterterrorist ex lover, Max, gone missing and her new fiance, radio shrink Matt Devine, in Chicago for week long media gig, Temple must depend on ‘the Vegas Strip Irregulars,’ a posse of cats, to solve murders old and new that smack of mobs vintage and all too contemporary. Success, or failure, could cost Temple her life, and all nine of Louie’s.

White House Pet Detectives

The tradition of pets in the White House goes all the way back to the Founding Fathers. From the parrot and foxhounds of George Washington to Spot and Barney, the current canines of the Bushes, the First Family’s animal companions have always had a special place in America s heart. These various and often exotic animals have enjoyed the special privileges of living in the nation s capital, giving them access to the scenes of power. So when something goes awry in the White House, who better to solve it than these pet detectives? Did Rex, Ronald Reagan s King Charles spaniel, play a role in uncovering Irangate? What mystery did Franklin Roosevelt s Scottish terrier, Fala, uncover when left on the Aleutian Islands? How would some of the more unusual pets, such as John Quincy Adams s pet alligator or Calvin Coolidge hippopotamus, search for clues in the halls of the Executive Mansion? The authors and stories are: ‘Martha s Parrot’ by Edward D. Hoch ‘A Mimicry of Mockingbirds’ by Lillian Stewart Carl ‘Alligator Tears’ by Bill Crider ‘The Greatest Sacrifice’ by Brendan DuBois ‘Tabby Won t Tell’ by Jan Grape ‘Under Hoof’ by Jeffrey Marks ‘The Princess and the Pickle’ by Carolyn Wheat ‘Remember the Maine?’ by Jeanne Dams ‘The Secret Staff’ by Janet Pack ‘Trouble A Bruin’ by Esther Friesner ‘Izzy s Shoe In’ by P. N. Elrod ‘Fala and The Ghost of Bulows Minde’ by Kate Grilley ‘Dr. Couch Saves a President’ by Nancy Pickard ‘Sax and the Single Cat’ by Carole Nelson Douglas

Dancing With Werewolves

It was the revelation of the millennium: witches, werewolves, vampires and other supernaturals are real. Fast forward 13 years: TV reporter Delilah Street used to cover the small town bogeyman beat back in Kansas, but now, in high octane Las Vegas which is run by a werewolf mob she finds herself holding back the gates of Hell itself. But at least she has a hot new guy and one big bad wolfhound to help her out…

Brimstone Kiss

Delilah and her partner tall, dark, handsome, and Hispanic ex FBI guy Ric Montoya are busy solving a ‘Romeo and Juliet’ double murder and she’s got plenty more to deal with: vampires, werewolves, and tigers, oh my!

Vampire Sunrise

WHEN THE STAKES ARE DEAD OR UNDEAD!Werewolf mobsters and vampires run Vegas, but that’s yesterday’s news for Delilah Street, paranormal investigator. What’s truly fearsome is her bloody discovery of an undead evil rooted in ancient Egypt. Now, with her lover Ric fighting for life after a grim battle, the chips are down. But Delilah is a born winner who has never let a little danger throw off her game, and she’s been learning fast since she came to Sin City. Her affinity for silver is making mirror walking a real breeze, and being forced to accept the albino rock star sorcerer Snow’s Brimstone Kiss has ramped up her powers to a startling new level. With the help of her trusty uber wolfhound Quicksilver, not to mention the orange demon parking valet Manny, Delilah is determined to solve even more paranormal secrets, and hopefully save the few innocents left in town. But can Delilah win her high stakes gamble for life and love against ancient gods and lethal supernatural odds?

Silver Zombie

Zombies and Witches and Vamps…
Oh, My! What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas at least that’s Delilah Street s hope. With Sin City s vampire and werewolf mobs wanting to cash in her chips once and for all, she s retreating with her partner Ric Montoya and half wolfhound Quicksilver to her Kansas birthplace. Unfortunately, when it comes to finding trouble, there s no place like home…
. It doesn t take long before Delilah realizes she s not in Vegas anymore. Zombie cowboys and spectral cattle drives are kicking up dust, the local weather girls are total witches who forecast perfect storms, and some Hollywood fanatic is recasting zombies as the greatest stars of the silver screen. And speaking of silver, Delilah s special affinity for the all purpose monster repellent leads her posse straight down a silver brick road and into a notso fun house of mirrors putting her face to face with her dicey past and a mystery woman named Lilith, who s a real dead ringer for Delilah. The key word being dead.

Angel Christmas

Five yuletide romances about divine intervention include Mary Balogh’s ”Guarded by Angels,” Marilyn Campbell’s ”The Trouble With Angelina,” Carole Nelson Douglas’s ”Catch a Falling Angel,” Emma Merritt’s ”Brush of Angel Wings,” and Patricia Rice’s ”Tin Angel.”

Marilyn

Exploring the many facets of the legendary actress, a collection of short fiction expounds upon and expands the myth of Marilyn Monroe, from the story of Marilyn saving Nikita Kruschev to the appearance of Marilyn on Mt. Rushmore.’

Midnight Louie’s Pet Detectives

Midnight Louie is the savvy black tomcat who stars in his very own series by Carole Nelson Douglas. One tough hombre, he knows the score and always gets his man…
or rat. Louie’s hot on a new case a whole bunch in fact, in Midnight Louie’s Pet Detectives. He’s pulled together stories of mystery, murder, and mayhem to bring us some of the wildest and furriest cases around, written by today’s most prominent authors. With an introduction from Lawrence Block and all new stories from such masters of the mystery as Dorothy Cannell, J.A. Jance, Nancy Pickard, and Ann Perry, as well as a reprint from Lilian Jackson Braun, Midnight Louie’s Pet Detectives is a treat for mystery readers…
and animal lovers of all flavors.

Much Ado About Murder

A stellar cast of today’s finest mystery authors have come up with rapier sharp mystery stories inspired by Shakespeare’s life, times, and works. Each story in this collection offers murderous intrigue worthy of the Bard himself, assuring us that Shakespeare lives on…
and that the rest of us are quite mortal indeed. Includes stories by: Jeffery Deaver Carole Nelson Douglas Robert Barnard Sharan Newman Gillian Linscott Lillian Stewart Carl Marcia Talley Edward Marston Simon Brett Brendan Dubois Margaret Frazer Edward D. Hoch Kathy Lynn Emerson P.C. Doherty Peter Robinson Peter Treymayne Anne Perry

Thou Shalt Not Kill

The greatest story ever told; the rise and fall of civilizations, empires, kings, despots, prophets and disciples; tales of love, betrayal, revenge, war, and disaster, the most fundamental and eternal myths and fables of Judeo Christian society; the end of the world the Bible has all of these. And now acclaimed mystery author Anne Perry has culled together an extraordinary list of writers from Sharyn McCrumb, Carole Nelson Douglas, Robert Barnard, Marcia Talley, Susan Moody and Peter Lovesey to Sharan Newman, Nancy Pickard, Reginald Hill, Gillian Linscott, Simon Brett, and Peter Robinson to contribute all new mystery and crime stories inspired by and based on these most ancient of biblical tales.

From Sampson and Delilah to David and Goliath; from Mount Sinai to the Last Supper, Thou Shalt Not Kill explores the stories of the bible as chilling expressions of the most basic instincts found in the Good Book. With fifteen unique and inspired twists on the traditional mystery story, Thou Shalt Not Kill is an inimitable edition to any library.

Unusual Suspects

All new from the top names in mystery and fantasy including a never beforepublished Sookie Stackhouse story from Charlaine Harris! This follow up to Powers of Detection showcases bestselling and award winning names from Simon Green to Laurie King to Sharon Shinn with original stories featuring otherworldly investigators trailing uncanny criminals across fantastical realms. From video game characters seeking civil rights and a cave dragon loan shark pondering an investment, to Santa Claus’s Australian vacation and an enemy of Sam Spade s out for revenge plus visits to the Nightside and Sookie Stackhouse s hometown these stories will take readers around the world on a magical mystery tour.

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