Too Many Tom Cats — Barbara Collins

A collection of eleven of Barbara Collins's best cat-themed stories, edited by Max Allan Collins. In A Proper Burial, a childless couple is driven to extremes to get back the remains of their beloved dead cat, held as evidence in a murder case. In a saloon brawl instigated by hatchet-wielding Carry Nation, the bartender kills Carry's Cat, and Carry is later charged with the saloonkeeper's murder. When an actress leaves her fortune to her cat, a scheming daughter tries to rub out The Ten Lives of Talbert.Can an elderly woman beat a murder rap by claiming that her cat is her reincarnated husband? Find out in Aunt Emma's Defense. And in Cat Got Your Tongue, co-written with mystery-writer husband Max Allan Collins, a conniving young couple attempts to steal the cat of a taxidermy-loving old vaudevillian.Intriguing . . . superb . . . the best the mystery genre has to offer. --Booklist