Series:

Midnight Louie Mystery

16 primary works • 29 total works

Book 13

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Midnight Louie, the loveable and feisty feline sleuth, returns once again to delight his legion of fans. Not only does he have to bail out his partner, public relations woman Temple Barr, but he also has to save a fellow feline from a charge of Murder One A big game hunter is found dead with only a leopard for company. The leopard is Osiris, a performing Big Cat who was kidnapped from his magician owner only days before the murder. Add to the mix a woman who's been surgically altered to resemble a Big Cat, a group of Las Vegas high-rollers who've been paying to illegally hunt big game, and a cadre of animal rights activists, and anything can happen.

Book 14

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In CAT IN A MIDNIGHT CHOIR, the black cat detective is hunting a mysterious and possibly murderous organisation of renegade magicians called the Synth, whish has been making Las Vegas too hot for some of Louie's human friends. While Louie and his daughter battle black magic, Louie's cherished roommate, plucky PR freelancer Temple Barr, is investigating the Synth despite the discouragement of homicide lieutenant C R Molina. Molina herself is secretly moonlighting as an undercover operative to nail the killer of a young stripper. The search has boiled down to two suspects: Temple's current significant other, and Molina's ex-lover. Unfortunately, proving either man the killer will seriously impact the lives of Molina and her daughter. As Louie and his human friends sink deeper into a lose-lose situation of crime and punishment, there doesn't seem to be a way out, except another murder, Can Louie pull a rabbit out of a hat and stop the stripper killer? And will the killer this time turn out to be someone Louie knows...and likes?

Book 15

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A mysterious and murderous organization of renegade magicians has been making Las Vegas too hot for some of Louie's human friends, particularly Max and Temple. But Max has had enough. His search leads him to the neon wonderland of Nighmare, a private magic club where reality and fantasy blur.

Book 16

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Cat in an Orange Twist

by Carole Nelson Douglas

Published 12 January 2004
Temple Barr is a sassy public relations ace in Las Vegas whose life is finally taking a turn for the better. Hard-nosed homicide lieutenant Carmen Molina is too busy chasing after her own ex-love to pursue Temple's boyfriend, sexy magician Max Kinsella, and nobody Temple knows has been murdered...at least, not in the past few weeks. Temple takes this downtime as a signal she should buy a new pair of Jimmy Choo spike heels and accept the job of planning a glitzy week of opening events for a trendy new furniture showroom. Dealing with temperamental decor mavens is no problem for a woman who has saved leopards from big game hunters, tracked killers through strip clubs, and seen the ghost of Elvis - until the life of media-crowned domestic dominatrix Amelia Wong is threatened. Suddenly Temple is neck deep in trouble...and bodies. And Temple has one more problem - one she doesn't even know about: her roommate Louie, and his maybe-daughter Louise, have decided to make sure that Temple's search for a killer furniture arrangement doesn't mean curtains for her. Midnight Inc. Investigations, their PI firm, is on the case. The catch? Louie is Temple's cat.

Book 17

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When mutilated Barbie dolls start showing up all over Las Vegas, ace freelance PR woman and amateur detective Temple Barr is on the case. She's thirty - going on nineteen when she agrees to do homicide lieutenant Carmen Molina a big favour and go undercover at Teen Idol, a TV reality show the lieutenant's thirteen-year old daughter is appearing on. Unhappily, Temple knows several people associated with the production, including her romance novelist aunt from Manhattan and her sleazy nemesis Crawford Buchanan. Can redheaded Temple fool her nearest and least dearest under the punk persona of Xoe Chloe Ozone? Temple is on her own among twenty-eight unnatural blonds who'd kill to make the final cut and be named Teen Idol Queen, and someone who'd just kill, period. Usually Temple has an ace or two up her sleeve, but Max Kinsella, her ex-magician boyfriend, is AWOL, plotting to infiltrate a sinister cabal of terrorist magicians, and neighbour-slash-sometimes love interest Matt Devine is in Chicago, tracking down his shocking family roots. Luckily, there's one alpha male Temple can always lean on: Midnight Louie, her black alley-cat roommate.
Louie is on the case, ensuring that all the "little dolls" under his care live to debut on national TV as more than lovely corpses.

Book 18

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Midnight Louie, Las Vegas' sassiest and fluffiest PI, finds himself literally walking a tightrope when a museum opening at one of the swankiest casinos is marred by a little thing like death. Louie's roommate, feisty PR freelancer Temple Barr, has snagged the commission of her career: repping the opening exhibition of the Russian Czars' priceless treasures at the New Millennium Hotel, the apex of which is the Czar Alexander Scepter, a priceless artifact. Trouble is, the hotel has booked an aerial magic act right above the exhibition. Temple works at a breakneck pace to coordinate this logistical nightmare. Tragedy ensues when someone dies right above where the collection will be displayed and the police threaten to shut everything down. But the word "no" isn't one heard often in Las Vegas. Just as things seem to be working perfectly, another performer dies...and the scepter vanishes. The culprits could be international art thieves, Russian mafiosi, or Chechen rebels out to embarrass the current Russian government. Or it could be someone else, perhaps someone Temple knows all too well: Can fancy footwork and detection save our intrepid duo?
The previous books of these authors include: "Cat in a Hot Pink Pursuit", "Cat in a Orange Twist", "Cat in a Neon Nightmare", and "Cat in a Kiwi".

Book 19

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Temple Barr and Midnight Louie are up to their tails in froufrou, chapeaux, and murder when the Red Hat Sisterhood convention hits Las Vegas. Electra Lark, Temple's spirited landlady, has dragged her to the con. Accused of murder after a woman is found strangled with an official Red Hat Sisterhood scarf, Electra begs Temple to clear her name by posing as a pink-hatter, an under-fifty member of the organization. Louie and his partner in Midnight Investigations Inc., Midnight Louise, join the hunt for the killer at the Crystal Phoenix. They find old friends already there, including C-movie actress Savannah Ashleigh and her Persian cats, Louie's ex-love, the Divine Yvette, and her sister Solange. As Temple and Louie dig under all the makeup and shopping bags, it becomes clear that a whole lot of folks want to crush or cash in on the red-hot rage of female empowerment that is the Red Hat Sisterhood.

Book 20

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"Cat in a Sapphire Slipper" is the twentieth title in Carole Nelson Douglas' sassy "Midnight Louie" mystery series. The tough-talking, twenty-pound, tomcat PI is as feisty as ever as he and his gang try to keep his favourite roommate from losing her man.PR honcho Temple Barr's romance novelist aunt Kit has wound up in a romantic plot of her own. She's snagged one of the most eligible bachelors on the Strip, one of the Fontana brothers, a silver-tongued reputed ex-mobster with a heart of gold.There is to be a wedding...and where there is a wedding, there is usually a bachelor party. Things go disastrously wrong when the entire party is hijacked and taken to a remote ranch out in the Nevada desert, a place where the women are wild and the sex is legal. Among the group? None other than Temple's own Matt, an ex-priest.Truly a fish out of water, he soon comes upon a beautiful young woman who is quite naked and most thoroughly dead. Given the remoteness of the location and the very few suspects on hand (plus the Fontanas' shady reputation) this could be a very bad thing indeed.And Louie?
Well, he managed to go along for the ride and once again it's up to that big old tomcat to bailout his humans and save the day.

Book 21

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Temple Barr and Matt Devine make a cosy engaged couple, and the feisty redhead is delighted when her handsome radio host fiance stars in a week-long televised Las Vegas charity event, 'Dancing with the Celebs'. But while ex-priest Matt struggles to master the sexy moves of the tango, a killer stalks the dance floor. Not only is Matt in danger but so is the lovely teen Mariah, daughter of homicide cop C. R. Molina, who is dancing in the Junior Division of the show. And so Temple gets dragooned into resurrecting her kicky teen persona, Zoe Chloe Ozone, now an internet hottie, to ensure Matt and Mariah don't foxtrot into a fatal misstep. Where is Louie in all this? Well, he's out and about, proving that he's still the cat's meow. But he's got his paws full as he tries to keep all the various players in his little troupe from dancing right into death's arms.

Book 22

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Temple Barr, publicist extraordinaire, is itching to bring off her most dangerous and exciting assignment, helping to launch an endeavour that many a Vegas showmen have dreamed of: a Las Vegas mob museum/casino. While city powers-that-be hem and haw over doing an official exhibit on the subject, the Family Fontana plans to connect two hotels with a 'Chunnel of Crime' featuring an underground speakeasy, a fast 'ride' through Vegas crime history by Gangsters custom limo service, and other fun attractions. Temple's grand scheme to do a live 'opening Bugsy Siegel's vault' media event built around a huge buried safe found underground produces a two-day-old body wearing white tie and tails. With Temple's magician-counterterrorist ex-lover, Max, gone missing and her new fiance, radio shrink Matt Devine, in Chicago for a week-long media gig, Temple must depend on 'the Vegas Strip Irregulars', a posse of cats, to solve murders old and new that smack of mobs vintage and all too contemporary. Success, or failure, could cost Temple her life, and all nine of Louie's.

Book 23

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Temple Barr is an ace P.R. wizard when it comes to promoting Las Vegas' hottest clients. She is also an amateur sleuth who has caught her share of bad guys. B-movie actress Savannah Ashleigh begs Temple to investigate the suspicious death of her rich aunt's handyman. Temple happily takes the case, if for no other reason than to take her mind off her chaotic private life. Her ex-fiance, the Mystifying Max, is back - minus his memory. And current fiance Matt Devine has shown up from a stint in Chicago with the promise of a surprising future. Which may or may not include Temple. As Temple digs into the man's untimely demise, she finds plenty of suspect and greedy humans swarming around the ailing Aunt Violet, who means to leave her estate to her resident cats. Temple thinks she's close to solving the case, but it becomes clear to Midnight Louie, Temple's room-mate and ace feline detective, that there are more deaths both human and feline coming. Add in the return of a mysterious stalker from the past, and its murder and mayhem on all fronts for Temple, Louie, and the ones they love in the newest story in the "Midnight Louie" mystery series.

Book 24

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A wedding to plan and a mystery to solve, and it's up to that rascally feline detective Midnight Louie to save the day.

Midnight Louie plays chaperone when PR whiz Temple Barr and her fiance, rising media star Matt Devine, head to Chicago so she can meet his family. Matt's mother has a tragic past primed to rise and bite anybody in reach. When Louie is snatched, the catnapping's surprising motive loops back to Vegas and a string of unsolved murders connected to magic...and ex-magician Max Kinsella, Temple's former significant other.

Skeptical homicide lieutenant C. R. Molina has commissioned Max to investigate the cold case murder she suspects he committed two years earlier. However, with traumatic amnesia from a recent attempt on his life, Max is more sitting duck than predator. It will take an alliance of frenemies to solve the murders before one of them joins the fatality list.

Cat in a White Tie and Tails is the twenty-second book in Carole Nelson Douglas' beloved Midnight Louie series.

Book 24

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Cat in an Alien X-Ray by Carole Nelson Douglas takes the Las Vegas gang on a science-fictional roller-coaster ride, as Midnight Louie, feline PI, and company encounter UFO enthusiasts, conspiracy nuts who are too bizarre even for tin foil hat therapy. An Area 51 attraction on the Strip threatens to bring more than starry-eyed enthusiasts to town. Once again it is up to that furballed PI Midnight Louie to keep his crew in line and save them from the attack of the creatures from the beyond...or common criminals that prey on the innocent.

Book 26

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Book 27

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Book 28

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Midnight Louie, toughcat extraordinaire, and his human partner in crime-solving, petite red-headed publicist Temple Barr, are once again in the thick of things as they try to discover just who is trying to wreck the annual Las Vegas Cat Show. When people start dying and the cats are placed in mortal danger, it's up to Louie to set things right. He'll do his best to foil the fiendish plot against the cats of Las Vegas... and save his best friend Temple from a very human killer.

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Midnight Louie, the hugely popular jet-black feline sleuth who thinks he's Sam Spade with hairballs, returns for an eleventh outing in Carole Nelson Douglas's acclaimed cozy-noir series. This time his human partner, Temple Barr, learns that the remodeling of the Crystal Pheonix hotel is being held up by a ghost: the workmen swear it's Elvis. The opening of Las Vegas's first Elvis-themed attraction might explain this unscheduled appearance. But what of the death threats against the Priscilla Presley-esque daughter of Crawford Buchanan, Temple's professional enemy? And who is the late-night caller to Temple's former suitor, radio counselor Matt Devine, who sounds remarkably like the King of Rock 'N Roll? When a dead Elvis is found, the question is not only whodunit, and why, but who the dead man really is. Could the King himself have been hiding behind the guise of his own imitators, and is he really dead again, or for the first time...or not at all?

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Midnight Louie, the black tomcat detective with a nose for the notorious, returns in the ninth episode of Carole Nelson Douglas's beloved series chronicling the follies of everyone's favorite feline. Back in Las Vegas after a holiday trip to the Big Apple, Midnight Louie witnesses death on the Nile when the battling Egyptian barges outside the Oasis hotel bring a dead body to the surface. The soggy victim is well known to Louie's redheaded, high-heeled human companion, Temple Barr: her two best beaux have been closely involved with the drowned man, and both have reasons to want him dead. Perhaps Temple can finally choose between handsome hotline counselor and ex-priest Matt Devine and the mysterious magician, Max Kinsella - by finding out which of her beaux is a killer. And then there are the new girls in town: an inscrutable lady magician named Shangri-La, who may play a bigger role in this scenario than anyone might think; and her winsome Siamese familiar, who may solve Louie's problems by giving him the key to her heart - or the key to solving the mystery.