Stray Kat Waltz

Stray Kat Waltz
Author: Karen Kijewski
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1999
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780425169889

Private investigator Kat Colorado, still coping with the death of her fiancé, agrees to investigate when the wife of an abusive police officer asks for her help and later disappears.

Kat's Cradle

Kat's Cradle
Author: Karen Kijewski
Publisher: Crimeline
Total Pages: 321
Release: 1992-11-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0553293915

She's a hard-boiled Sacramento P.I. with a soft spot for the unlucky, the unloved, and one special cop named Hank. Her name is Kat Colorado and in her line of business curiosity can be mre than an occupational hazard -- it can be murder. She said her name was Paige Morrell and she came to Kat Colorado hoping to untangle the twisted mystery of her past. She was a twenty-one-year-old "orphan," a poor little rich girl on the verge of inheriting a weathy old river estate -- and some very nasty surprises. But when Kat set out to solve the case, she found herself following a thread of lies, greed and deceit that led straight to the corpse of a key source to Paige's past. Now the Sacramento private eye was about to learn that in the California Delta some family secrets were better left buried . . .because uncovering them could be murder.

Rich Cat, Poor Cat

Rich Cat, Poor Cat
Author: Bernard Waber
Publisher: StarWalk Kids Media
Total Pages: 51
Release: 2014-06-30
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1630833665

Scat, a stray cat, has a difficult life. It is hard for Scat to find food, shelter and love. Scat's hardships are compared to a variety of other cats, all who have homes.

Waltz of the Psychotics

Waltz of the Psychotics
Author: Damien Michael Shindelman
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2020-10-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 166550529X

Waltz of the Psychotics deals with the power struggle between two unhinged symphonic musicians. Amarah Zarcy is a fledgling violist in the Baton Rouge Symphony. The principal of her section, Reba Kane takes an immediate disliking to homely and timid new musician. As Reba plots to remove her nemesis from the ensemble, Amarah fights back in the only way she can. With the help of her twin sister, Celeste, Amarah cleverly deceives everyone around her to keep her coveted orchestra job. This epic battle of wills quickly escalates out of control, to the point of no return. As both Amarah and Reba’s realities slowly fade away, all-consuming insanity rapidly takes over, much to the demise of all who become involved with the pair. Waltz of the Psychotics dances into the murky and turbid recesses of the demented and brainsick mind. I promise, once you start reading this book, you will not want to put it down.

Whodunit?

Whodunit?
Author: Rosemary Herbert
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2003-05-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0198035829

Who populates the pages of crime and mystery writing? Who are the characters we willingly follow into the mystery genre's uneasy imaginative territory? And who created those characters in the first place? What life experience and expertise informs their work? What are the sources of their themes, regional accents, and even the axes that some grind? Why do some wish to give us a good laugh, while others seem hell-bent on making us shudder? Whodunit? answers these questions and more. Here mystery expert Rosemary Herbert brings together enlightening and entertaining information on hundreds of classic and contemporary characters and authors. Some--such as P.D. James, Ian Rankin, Sherlock Holmes, and Kinsey Millhone--appear in individual entries. Still more keep company in articles about characters we admire, such as the Clerical Sleuth, and in pieces about those we love to hate, including the Femme Fatale and Con Artist. There is even an article on a figure that haunts so many great works of mystery--The Corpse. Drawing on the Edgar Award-nominated volume The Oxford Companion to Crime & Mystery Writing, Herbert adds 101 new entries on the hottest new names in works ranging from puzzling whodunits to chilling crime novels.

Mystery Women, Volume Two (Revised)

Mystery Women, Volume Two (Revised)
Author: Colleen Barnett
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2011-12-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1615950095

Many bibliographers focus on women who write. Lawyer Barnett looks at women who detect, at women as sleuths and at the evolving roles of women in professions and in society. Excellent for all women's studies programs as well as for the mystery hound. Look at the popularity of such reading guides as Willetta Heising's Detecting Women (3rd ed. 0-9644593-7-X) or Amanda Cross' fiction (Honest Doubt 0-345-44011-0 11/00).

Booze and the Private Eye

Booze and the Private Eye
Author: Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2015-01-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0786481536

The hard-bitten PI with a bottle of bourbon in his desk drawer--it's an image as old as the genre of hard-boiled detective fiction itself. Alcohol has long been an important element of detective fiction, but it is no mere prop. Rather, the treatment of alcohol within the works informs and illustrates the detective's moral code, and casts light upon the society's attitudes towards drink. This examination of the role of alcohol in hard-boiled detective fiction begins with the genre's birth, in an era strongly influenced and affected by prohibition, and follows both the genre's development and its relation to our changing understanding of and attitudes towards alcohol and alcoholism. It discusses the works of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Mickey Spillane, Robert B. Parker, Lawrence Block, Marcia Muller, Karen Kijewski and Sue Grafton. There are bibliographies of both the primary and critical texts, and an index of authors and works.

Sentimental Garden Lover

Sentimental Garden Lover
Author: Muku Ogura
Publisher: Digital Manga, Inc.
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2012
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1613131690

Love is found in the strangest places and with the most unexpected partners. The men (and cats!) of SENTIMENTAL GARDEN LOVER burst into heart-throbbing bloom! A scruffy stray cat wishes for big hands to hold an abused man, and a cute kitten begs for speech to comfort a broken-hearted stranger. Wander further into the garden, and you’ll find close siblings upset by a love rival; a jaded delinquent flustered by a trusting bookworm; an evasive, glasses-hating man; and a president eager to find a weakness in his perfect secretary. For both cat and human, the quest for love is here!

Sleuths in Skirts

Sleuths in Skirts
Author: Frances A. DellaCava
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2002
Genre: American fiction
ISBN: 9780815338840

This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality.