From Publishers Weekly
Following their debut in Catnap, feline sleuth Midnight Louis and his "doting roommate and a freelance public relations specialist," Miss Temple Barr, return for another breezy collaboration. After the publicist for a Las Vegas stripper competition has a heart attack while being questioned about the murder of a contestant--found hung by a G-string in a dressing room--Barr reluctantly takes over the PR chores. He snoops as well, much to the displeasure of female Homicide Lt. C. R. Molina, who believes the investigation should be left to the professionals. Louis finds himself at the murder scene during his pursuit of silver-furred Divine Yvette, who is owned by one of the judges. When three more strippers are killed, including the gilded-all-over Gold Dust Twins, the contest falls into chaos. As Barr learns more about the strippers, many of whom are abused women seeking control over men, she is assaulted by thugs hunting her former lover and finds herself on the verge of a new relationship. Douglas, author of the Irene Adler mysteries, draws a reasonably modern and liberated female in Barr, while the Runyonesque Midnight Louis remains an unregenerate macho tomcat. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
Principled p.r. freelancer Temple Barr (Catnap, 1992) gets backed into arranging publicity for the Goliath Hotel's stripper competition- -thanks to the heart-attack that sleazy columnist Crawford Buchanan suffered when he discovered the body of one of the contestants hanging by her own G-string. Instead of sticking to her job, as she's warned to do by mean-mama Las Vegas Lt. C. R. Molina, Temple and her cat and alternate narrator, Midnight Louie, nose around the businesslike stripper scene, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Ike Wetzel, the blackmailing owner of a topless club; the Gold Dust Twins, abused Gypsy and denying June; and a pair of protestors from the feminist left and the religious right. At one point Temple gets roughed up by two men looking for her old magician-lover, both of whom seem to have wandered in from their own book. After their departure, more murders ensue, following a nursery-rhyme pattern; unfortunately, Louie's isn't one of them. Dog lovers, and lovers of well-made plots and prose, need not apply. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
Review
"A genuine mystery star." --Ed Gorman, editor of Cat Crimes II
"Destined to become one of the first ladies of the mystery scene." --Romantic Times
"A dandy puzzler that is pure catnip for mystery connoisseurs." --R*A*V*E Reviews
"Douglas is a master of the well-told tale." --ALA Booklist
"Attention! All you ailurophiles addicted to Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who mysteries...can latch onto a new purrivate eye: Midnight Louie...slinking and sleuthing on his own à la Mike Hammer." --Fort Worth Star Telegram
Review
"A genuine mystery star." --Ed Gorman, editor of Cat Crimes II
"Destined to become one of the first ladies of the mystery scene." --Romantic Times
"A dandy puzzler that is pure catnip for mystery connoisseurs." --R*A*V*E Reviews
"Douglas is a master of the well-told tale." --ALA Booklist
"Attention! All you ailurophiles addicted to Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who mysteries...can latch onto a new purrivate eye: Midnight Louie...slinking and sleuthing on his own à la Mike Hammer." --Fort Worth Star Telegram
Review
"A genuine mystery star." --Ed Gorman, editor of Cat Crimes II
"Destined to become one of the first ladies of the mystery scene." --Romantic Times
"A dandy puzzler that is pure catnip for mystery connoisseurs." --R*A*V*E Reviews
"Douglas is a master of the well-told tale." --ALA Booklist
"Attention! All you ailurophiles addicted to Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who mysteries...can latch onto a new purrivate eye: Midnight Louie...slinking and sleuthing on his own à la Mike Hammer." --Fort Worth Star Telegram
Book Description
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 musclebound 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...
Pussyfoot (A Midnight Louie Mystery) ANNOTATION
The sequel to the critically acclaimed Catnap, featuring the fabulous feline sleuth Midnight Louie. At a Las Vegas stripper convention, public relations freelancer Temple Barr investigates the death of a contestant and a striptease business owner. As she pursues the killer, Midnight Louie does his own sleuthing.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Midnight Louie is aprowl again! Award-winning mystery author Carole Nelson Douglas sets her tomcat who's a private dick on the track of murder and intrigue on the sinful streets of Las Vegas. The game is definitely afoot as the trail begins at a striptease competition, where petite public relations freelancer Temple Barr is up to her spike heels in musclebound males, siliconed females - and murder. After a contestant is found hanging from her own G-string the owner of a joke striptease business turns up dead. Then two thugs assault Temple, looking for her ex-flame, a missing stage magician. Implacable female police lieutenant C.R. Molina wants answers now, answers Temple doesn't have. Meanwhile, Temple's relationship with handsome hotline counselor Matt Devine is heating up nicely, but he may hide secrets of his own... As Temple tracks the killer, Midnight Louie pursues his own investigation. Now that fading film star Savannah Ashleigh and the Devine Yvette, her purebred Persian and Louie's platinum-haired lost love, are among the endangered, this tomcat sleuth will leave no rhinestone unturned to find the murderer...
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