Empty Creek, Arizona, becomes the backlot for a shocking mystery when the film director of a big-budget western is found dead. For Penelope Warren, ex-Marine, bookstore owner, and occasional detective, finding the killer, with the help of her 25-pound Abysinian cat, is a scene she's fated to play.
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Welcome to Empty Creek, Ariz., where all the women are voluptuous, all the men are adoring and everyones horny. Blame it on the water, says ex-marine Penelope Warren, now a bookstore owner and amateur sleuth. In the latest episode (after Dinosaur Cat) of Allens series featuring Penelope and her fat cat, Mycroft (aka Big Mike), Empty Creek is invaded by a B-movie film crew. Director C.D. Masterly and his company are in town to shoot a low-budget western starring Penelope, her sister, Stormy, and most of the towns women as saloon floozies. Before the filming gets underway, however, Masterly is found murdered in his rented villa, and everyone in the crewactresses, writers, female companionsis suspect. As a new director begins shooting and the sexual antics heat up, Penelope begins her search for the killer. Allens plot gets dragged down by Empty Creeks steamy capers, and Mycrofts part in the long saga is disappointingly small. None of the characters, including Penelope, are standouts in this town, where the ladies are intelligent bombshells and the men are dumb, at best. Other than Mycrofts standard feline feats, this novels best feature is an exciting conclusion in which the movie shoots explosive finale exposes the killer.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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A big-budget movie shoot arrives in Empty Creek, AZ, with promises of part-time employment that tempt Penelope Warren, local sometime sleuth (Baseball Cat, LJ 7/97). Unfortunately, she and cat Mycroft really swing into action only after someone murders the movie's director. For cat-genre fans and others.
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Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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This is about the same as the other books in this series, which is a pretty good series. The movie setting gives in more glamor and appeal for some people. As usual, Big Mike is a really interesting and well done character, with a much lesser cast of supporting humans. It's an overall well done book.
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Crude, rude & lewd & not for cat fans!
Jun 9 2009
By B. Hunter
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I kept thinking this was a joke but it wasn't. I don't want to meet one person from this book - they are all white trash! I'll re-read Lilian Jackson Braun a thousand times over. This is soft porn for a so called mystery. The cat did nothing except show up on the cover. I won't be taken in again by this author. I threw the book at the wall after 5 chapters & don't care who killed the movie director.
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One of the good whodunit series' with a cat character.
April 18 2002
By William L. Gilstrap
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This is about the same as the other books in this series, which is a pretty good series. The movie setting gives in more glamor and appeal for some people. As usual, Big Mike is a really interesting and well done character, with a much lesser cast of supporting humans. It's an overall well done book.
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