Swift as the wind, silent as the grave, for centuries the cat has teased and captured the human imagination. Aloof, mysterious, playful, sometimes the pet and often the master, the cat thrives on its own contradictions and defies predictability. And the cat stalks, claws, and haunts the pages of this compelling new story collection.

A Treasury of Cat Mysteries gathers between its covers twenty-one cunning mysteries by such luminaries as Lillian Jackson Braun, Ruth Rendell, Ed Gorman, Clark Howard, and Carole Nelson Douglas, among others. At the top of their form, these mystery writers put their own suspenseful spin on the often dark world of the inscrutable and irresistible cat.

Contents:

• SuSu and the 8:30 Ghost by Lilian Jackson Braun
• Ginger's Waterloo by Peter Lovesey
• Nine Lives to Live by Sharyn McCrumb
• Bedeviled by Bill Pronzini
• The Maggody Files: Hillbilly Cat by Joan Hess
• Enduring As Dust by Bruce Holland Rogers
• Buster by Bill Crider
• Where the Cat Came In by Mat Coward
• Photo Opportunity by Larry Segriff
• Bubastis by Michael Stotter
• Too Many Tomcats by Barbara Collins
• A Capital Cat Crime by Richard Chizmar
• Tea and 'Biscuit by Jon L. Breen
• The Beast Within by Margaret Maron
• Reunification by Peter Crowther
• Cat Got Your Tongue by Barbara and Max Allan Collins
• Sax and the Single Cat by Carole Nelson Douglas
• Fat Cat by Nancy Pickard
• The Christmas Kitten by Ed Gorman
• Long Live the Queen by Ruth Rendell