The Cat Who Wasn't a Dog

The Trixie and Evangeline Series, Book 6

De: Marian Babson

Narrado por: Sarah Nichols

A purrfect crime!

Dame Cecile Savoy's "revolting floor mop" of a Pekinese has passed away at a ripe old age. Now, the aging British actress convinces her rivals on stage and screen, Trixie and Evangeline, to support her in her hour of grief...by accompanying her to a taxidermist. But it's a cab ride straight to a cat-astrope!

No sooner do the three elderly thespians enter "Stuff Yours" than they discover a dead body, a live kitty in a cage, and flames bursting from the back room. Fortunately for a rare Japanese bobtail called Cho-Cho-San, Trixie grabs the cat before fleeing the scene. But who's the victim? Who set the fire? And why was a gorgeous feline going to be stuffed?

Of course, Cho-Cho-San knows more than she's letting on as the curtain goes up on foul play, murderous jealousies, and a killer who may be going to the dogs....

©2003 Marian Babson (P)2019 Blackstone Publishing

Part entertaining part really annoying

as a pet lover my biggest problem was that the character telling the story,while claiming that they love the cat, makes no attempt to find out who wants it dead, hands the cat over without question to anyone without making any effort to find out if they were going to take the cat and have it killed ,or warn them that someone had already tried to kill it.She didn't even tell them where she found the cat.She has common sense,but makes no effort to use it, she just goes along with what everyone else wants even though it makes no sense, apparently just because it's easiest.They run out of a burning building where a man has been murdered,in broad daylight,in front of countless witnesses,and it doesn't occur to any of them that the police are going to find them in no time.When their taxi driver gets arrested,instead of rushing to the police station to give him an alibi,the just sit on their butts and make a couple of phone calls.They could easier have told the police what they knew ,instead they decide that they have to solve the murder to help their friend.Then another person is murdered in their house,and they destroy all the evidence of it being a murder, because a murder investigation would inconvenience them.I have no problem with the silly self absorbed grande dames,I do have a problem with the one person who has a modicum of sense, going along like a mindless sheep ,with those who don't simply because it's easiest.

Screeching narration!!

The story may be ok but good lord! The narration was so inconsistent and irritating I never got to find out. The character “narrating” the story sometimes had an English accent,sometimes didn’t. All of them were harsh ugly sounding especially Dame what’s her name. Quite overdone,screeching was her “go to” mode. It just got too much,too irritating.

confused

This was one of the most confusing books I have listened to if it weren't far the narrator I would have dropped it completely. Even with that I had to go back a couple of times to listen. Way over my head. I like this author but this book wasn't for me

Really very funny!

I really enjoyed this book. The characters were very original and funny. The story was very good and funny. The narration was done really well and funny.

Funny characters, excellent plot!

This book was excellent! The characters were funny and they didn’t make stupid decisions. I hate it when authors make the characters do stupid things to forward the plot. Be creative and write the action into the story for a good reason. This book does exactly that.