In these nineteen original tail-twitching tales of mystery, cats from Maine coon to Scottish fold, tabby to Siamese, white Persian to calico crack all manner of holiday capers. Arbor Day reminds a veterinarian how a kitten's coat cinched a murder case...A smart young woman at Christmas discovers that the way to an old man's inheritence is not through his heart but through his cat...A family Hanukkah celebration gives a sharp-eyed cop with a fondness for felines insight into blackmail and murder...An abused stray at Thanksgiving sends a family over the edge...And many more!

Once again mystery fans will cheer as cats meet crime for a fur-raising showdown of deceit, detection, and a dizzying display of feline fireworks.

Contents: (all stories copyright 1997)

• Dr. Couch Saves a cat by Nancy Pickard
• Iä Iä Iä-Iä! Cthulouie! by Carole Nelson Douglas
• Auld Lang What? by Barbara Paul
• Autumn Tethers by Tracy Knight
• But Once a Year by John Lutz
• Cold Turkey by Graham Masterton
• How the July Fourth Cat Saved the Day and Ruined the Night by Jan Grape
• Like Father, Like Son by Richard T. Chizmar
• Longevity Has Its Place by Jon L. Breen
• Party Animal by Morris Hershman
• I Suppose This Makes Me Sancho by Gary A. Braunbeck
• Boxing Day by Nick Hassam
• Death of a Glamour Cat by Christine Matthews and Robert J. Randisi
• To Grandmother's House We Go by Barbara Collins
• Him. Gone? Good! by Jeremiah Healy
• Non-Lethals by Marlys Millhiser
• The All-American by Peter Crowther and Stewart von Allmen
• The Old Man Who Saw Newgrange by J.N. Williamson
• The Easter Cat by Bill Crider

Edited by Larry Segriff, Ed Gorman, and Martin H. Greenberg.