CLAWS ARE LONG . . . LIFE IS SHORT
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Aice Nestleton's acting career has a case of the no-nos - no auditions, no jobs, no money. Even her cat-sitting work is dwindling, and to add injury to insult, her harum-scarum kitty, Pancho, turns into a cat from hell rather than enter his carrier for a nail-cutting trip to the vet. The solution is to call in the professionals - the Village Cat People, a service to cat owners with problem pets. Unfortunately, a far bigger problem arrives when Martha, the Cat People representative, is murdered at Alice's front door. The police call it a mugging; Martha's co-workers call it an assassination. They want Alice, as a well-known amateur sleuth, to investigate. Alice prefers to put the tragedy behind her and move into a new loft apartment in Greenwich Village. But a second murder involving the Cat People gives her "paws." Now a clue linking the murders to a bohemian poet and the Village's vibrant past has her creating a risky trap to catch a killer. It will be a real work of art. . . .or a colorful way to die.

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