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"When Rachel Murdock and her sister Jennifer receive a call for help from their favorite niece, Lilly, in Breakers Beach, California, they quickly hop a train from Los Angeles to see her--but not before collecting their prized cat Samantha in a picnic basket and bringing her along for the ride. Samatha, it turns out, is an heiress, the inheritor of a fortune left by a wealthy relative, and so the attempt at the cat's life, made right after they arrive, comes as a shock. The cat survives, but unfortunately, Lilly, murdered soon thereafter, is not so lucky. By the time the police arrive, the clues are already falling into place. The source of Lilly's trouble is revealed to be a gambling debt incurred during an attempt to cheat at bridge, and the suspects in her slaying quickly pile up. But then another corpse is discovered, buried in the nearby sand, and it becomes clear that the killing spree concerns more than just the young lady's personal money trouble. With the authorities distracted by lurid details, it's up to Rachel and her furry friend to uncover the subtleties containing the solution to the puzzle. A prototypical early ""cat mystery,"" written before the subgenre became a staple of cozy mystery fiction, The Cat Saw Murder is an entertaining and endlessly surprising whodunit."

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Dolores Hitchens (1907-1973) was a prolific mystery writer, publishing Sleep With Strangers (1955), Fools' Gold (1958), and The Watcher (1959), among other works, under her own name, and twenty additional suspense novels as D. B. Olsen. Joyce Carol Oates is the author of more than seventy books, including novels, short story collections, poetry volumes, plays, essays, and criticism. Among her many honors are the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction and the National Book Award. Janet Metzger is an experienced audiobook narrator. At age five, she decided she wanted to record stories for a living after her dad brought home a reel-to-reel tape recorder. She has acted on stage, film, and tv for over four decades and has also served as the artistic director of a feminist theater company. An award-winning documentary narrator, she has also recorded jazz/cabaret albums, been an announcer for CNN, and performed as a plate-spinning chanteuse in a New Vaudeville orchestra.

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