Lydia Adamson

The off-Broadway actress, Alice Nestleton, who moonlights as a cat sitter, is offered $2,500 to board a cat. But the owner is murdered and the cat turns out to be only a stuffed toy. Alice investigates.

Hired to house-sit for Brat, the hyperactive cat belonging to New York guidebook author Louis Montag, while his owner tries to work, actress and sleuth Alice Nestleton is stunned when, on her first day, she is attacked, her employer is murdered, and Bartvanishes.