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Synopsis
PR flack Temple Barr, arranging publicity for the Las Vegas Cat Show, is on the track of whoever gave Peggy Wilhelm's champion Birman cat Minuet a Mohawk, keeping Minuet out of shows for at least a year. Phone counselor Matt Devine, Temple's reticent suitor, has been asked by his old teacher Sister Seraphina O'Donnell to find out who's behind the obscene phone calls to deaf, elderly Sister Mary Monica. And Temple's Runyonesque cat Midnight Louie has been privy to a dire prophecy of cat-astrophe for untold numbers of local felines. It would be nice if all these mysteries were connected; and it's a lot more fun watching them grow together--and seeing Louie win an accidental blue ribbon and get dragooned into giving blood to a crucified fellow cat--than it is trying to finger the feeble malefactor, about whom the less said the better. (Douglas must agree: It's practically a nonspeaking role.) Less arch than Catnap (1992) and Pussyfoot (1993), but intolerably overextended, with a finale that'll run you within a whisker of your ninth life. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
Is Cat on a Blue Monday appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 13 and up.
This lighthearted mystery features mild animal cruelty (cat grooming sabotage, a crucified cat needing medical help) and obscene phone calls to elderly nuns (content not detailed), but maintains a cozy, humorous tone throughout with no graphic violence or sexual content.
What to know going in
This book has mild violence, no sexual content, and clean language. Content notes include animal harm.
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Who'll love this
Readers who love clever cat narrators and quirky Las Vegas mysteries will enjoy following Midnight Louie and Temple Barr as they solve interconnected crimes.