Cat In A White Tie And Tails

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Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Previously in Midnight Louie’s Lives and Times …

Chapter 1:

Underwater

Chapter 2:

Let the Mind Games Begin

Chapter 3:

Las Vegas Leavings

Chapter 4:

Louie on the Fly

Chapter 5:

Second City Kitty

Chapter 6:

Fast Food 4 Thought

Chapter 7:

Suite Deal

Chapter 8:

Doves vs. Pigeons

Chapter 9:

Tunnel Vision

Chapter 10:

Family … Matters

Chapter 11:

Collared

Chapter 12:

Prawn Patrol

Chapter 13:

Surprise Party

Chapter 14:

Gossip Guys: Doing One’s Nails

Chapter 15:

Prodigal Cat

Chapter 16:

Search and Unexpected Seizure

Chapter 17:

Subterranean Sunday Blues

Chapter 18:

Trapped, Stacked, and Zapped

Chapter 19:

Tail End

Chapter 20:

Lefty Behind

Chapter 21:

Past Tax Due

Chapter 22:

We Call the Wind Mariah

Chapter 23:

The Second Coming

Chapter 24:

A Tale Untold

Chapter 25:

Angst à la Carte

Chapter 26:

Lurking Lusty Laddies

Chapter 27:

Brothers, Where Art Thou?

Chapter 28:

The Post-Midnight Hour

Chapter 29:

Bye-Bye Windy Kitty

Chapter 30:

Surprise Park

Chapter 31:

Missing Links

Chapter 32:

Bad Mews

Chapter 33:

Temple’s Table of Crime Elements

Chapter 34:

Fur Flies

Chapter 35:

Double Down

Chapter 36:

I’ll Have a Double … Agent

Chapter 37:

The Shadow Nose

Chapter 38:

Game for Adventure

Chapter 39:

Cold Case Contact

Chapter 40:

Brassy and Breezy

Chapter 41:

Sob Sisters

Chapter 42:

Back to School

Chapter 43:

Alien Eyes

Chapter 44:

Midnight at the Oasis

Chapter 45:

Million-Dollar Collar

Chapter 46:

Monkey-Suit Business

Chapter 47:

After-Hours Nightmare

Chapter 48:

Bringing Down the House

Chapter 49:

Max’s Last Act

Chapter 50:

A Very Vegas Affair

Chapter 51:

Makeover of Honor

Chapter 52:

Here Comes the Bride

Chapter 53:

Evening in Paris

Chapter 54:

Meddling Belles

Chapter 55:

Twisted Tight

Chapter 56:

Rematch

Chapter 57:

Invitation to a Duel

Chapter 58:

Domesticated Species

Chapter 59:

Motorcycle Melodrama

Tailpiece:

Midnight Louie Has Mixed Feelings

Tailpiece:

Carole Nelson Douglas on Other Matters

By Carole Nelson Douglas from Tom Doherty Associates

About the Author

Copyright

Previously in

Midnight Louie’s Lives and Times …

Las Vegas is my beat.

I love this rambling, gambling entertainment capital with a supersized dose of lights, action, and camera—security or otherwise.

The lights … the security and tourist cameras … and the action remain as bright and frenetic as always. Our landmark hotel-casinos and allied institutions are still puttin’ on the glitz.

Me, although a Las Vegas institution, I have always kept a low profile.

You do not hear about me on the nightly news. That is how I like it. That is the way any primo PI would like it. The name is Louie, Midnight Louie. I am a noir kind of guy, inside and out. I like my nightlife shaken, not stirred.

Being short, dark, and handsome … really short … gets me overlooked and underestimated, which is what the savvy operative wants anyway. I am your perfect undercover guy. I also like to hunker down under the covers with my little doll. So would some other guys, but they do not have my lush hirsute advantages.