Books by Carole Nelson Douglas and Complete Book Reviews
Carole Nelson Douglas, Author Forge $22.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-85901-5
Midnight Louie, the coolest feline in Las Vegas, returns from Cat on a Blue Monday to tackle the ``nefarious dudes'' who are plaguing the Crystal Phoenix Hotel. Freelance publicist Miss Temple Barr, Louie's domestic companion, has signed on to redo...
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Carole Nelson Douglas, Author Tor Books $19.95 (381p) ISBN 978-0-312-85223-8
In a delightful encore, Victorian diva/detective Irene Adler Norton (last encountered in Good Morning, Irene ) engages in a battle of wits with Sherlock Holmes and a vicious killer seeking to hide a traitorous past. The savage-looking stranger who...
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Carole Nelson Douglas, Author Tor Books $18.95 (408p) ISBN 978-0-312-93210-7
Setting herself the task of creating a heroine worthy of Sherlock Holmes, Douglas, a Texas writer of science fiction ( Counterprobe ), succeeds smashingly. In providing an inventive, believable past for Irene Adler, the one woman (and an American at
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Carole Nelson Douglas, Author Tor Books $4.99 (374p) ISBN 978-0-312-93211-4
Douglas's first novel, Good Night, Mr. Holmes , was an impressive enough performance to demand an encore. Introducing Irene Adler--the only woman to dupe Sherlock Holmes--as a detective in her own right, however, the earlier work was a hard act to...
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Carole Nelson Douglas, Author Tor Books $19.95 (329p) ISBN 978-0-312-85146-0
A Minnesota newspaper reporter suddenly finds herself in the devastated world of Veil, where water is frequently poisonous and children are cast out because of mutations (or birth-banes) in this ecologically oriented fantasy. Alison Carver rescues...
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Carole Nelson Douglas, Author Tor Books $19.95 (319p) ISBN 978-0-312-85147-7
The second installment (after Cup of Clay ) of this well-crafted ecological fantasy series takes Minnesota reporter Alison Carver back to the troubled world of Veil, which she had abruptly left a few months earlier while in possession of its most...
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Carole Nelson Douglas, Author Tor Books $19.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-85218-4
Following their debut in Catnap, feline sleuth Midnight Louis and his ``doting roommate and a freelance public relations specialist,'' Miss Temple Barr, return for another breezy collaboration. After the publicist for a Las Vegas stripper...
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Carole Nelson Douglas, Author Forge $22.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-312-85224-5
Victorian sometime-sleuth Irene Norton begins her fifth adventure, following Irene at Large , in a Paris fashion salon. On their first visit to Maison Worth, Irene and her companion, narrator Nell Huxleigh, are implored by the Queen of Bohemia to...
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Carole Nelson Douglas, Author Forge $21.95 (381p) ISBN 978-0-312-85607-6
Midnight Louie, the 19-pound feline detective and self-decribed ``one cool dude,'' pads the streets of his hometown Las Vegas in his third case (after Pussyfoot ). From a psychic Birman cat named Karma, Louie hears that danger threatens a gathering...
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Carole Nelson Douglas, Author . Forge $25.95 (544p) ISBN 978-0-312-86941-0
A direct sequel to Chapel Noir
(2001), Douglas's exuberant sixth novel to feature the woman who bested Sherlock Holmes offers a novel theory as to the identity of Jack the Ripper that's sure to provoke controversy among those devoted to the
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Carole Nelson Douglas, Author Forge $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-86085-1
It's amore for Midnight Louie, coolest cat in Las Vegas, as he continues to court the Divine Yvette, a beautiful Siamese, and ends up solving a murder at the G.R.O.W.L.--Great Readers of Wonderful Literature--convention of romance writers. Louie's...
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Carole Nelson Douglas, Author Forge $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-86228-2
It's Halloween in Las Vegas, the glitzy site of Douglas's mysteries starring black-cat-about-town Midnight Louie, last seen in Cat in a Diamond Dazzle. Against her better judgment, Temple Barr, Louie's human companion, has agreed to participate in a
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Carole Nelson Douglas, Author Forge $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-86329-6
Times are exciting in Las Vegas. Conceptual artist Domingo, who once hung a green-and-red spaghetti curtain from the Leaning Tower of Pisa, wants to cover the glitzy burg with 900,000 plastic flamingos. He has hired freelance publicist Temple Barr...
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Carole Nelson Douglas, Author Forge $23.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-86634-1
Midnight Louie, cat detective, falls under the spell of an exotic feline fatale in his latest adventure, while his human, Temple Barr, is further swayed by magician-on-the-lam, Max Kinsella. Back in Las Vegas after a stint in New York City (Cat in a
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Carole Nelson Douglas, Author Forge $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-85370-9
Fans of debonair anthropomorphic feline Midnight Louie will be delighted, but the uninitiated would do best to avoid this 13th installment in Douglas's alphabetical ""meganovel,"" after 2000's Cat in a Kiwi Con. (For those who are counting, the B...
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Carole Nelson Douglas, Author Juno Books $6.99 (394p) ISBN 978-0-8095-7203-8
While the millennium revelation in this fantastic first of a new paranormal series might not be a shocker for urban fantasy fans\x97i.e., vampires, werewolves, witches and zombies come out of the closet after Y2K\x97Douglas (Cat in a Red Hot Rage)...
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Carole Nelson Douglas. Forge, $24.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2748-2
Douglas’s busy 25th cat caper (after 2012’s Cat in a White Tie and Tails) finds PR professional Temple Barr hesitantly taking on a new client, Silas T. Farnum. Farnum claims his “Area 54” attraction is going to be a hit on the Las Vegas Strip, and...
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Carole Nelson Douglas, Author . Forge $24.95 (396p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1861-9
The fur-flying 20th entry in Douglas's cat whodunit series (Cat in a Red Hot Rage
, etc.) reveals that magician Mystifying Max Kinsella, Temple Barr's former sweetie, has been secretly whisked away to a European hospital, where he suffers...
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Carole Nelson Douglas, Author . Forge $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-85797-4
As her 14th hip crime caper to feature Alpha cat Midnight Louie, with his cranky, Columboesque voice shows, Douglas just keeps getting better at juggling mystery, humor and romance. This one unfolds like one of those Russian nesting dolls—ther
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Carole Nelson Douglas, Author . Forge $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0680-7
In the 15th entry (after 2002's Cat in a Midnight Choir) in Douglas's sprawling serial that always leaves another murder unsolved until the next installment, that cocky cool cat and "ace feline PI" Midnight Louie and his "erstwhil
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Carole Nelson Douglas, Author . Forge $25.95 (554p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0682-1
Although Irene Adler appeared in only one of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories ("A Scandal in Bohemia"), this beautiful, intelligent and mysterious character, a Victorian woman well ahead of her time, has taken on a vivid new...
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Carole Nelson Douglas, Author . Forge $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0681-4
Temple Barr, crime-fighting Las Vegas PR whiz, turns on her "gaydar," slips on her Jimmy Choos and makes funky feng shui in Douglas's 16th Midnight Louie caper, a fresher, tighter entry than 2003's Cat in a Neon Nightmare
. Aided by &
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Carole Nelson Douglas, Author . Forge $24.95 (364p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1399-7
Thirty-year-old Temple Barr, Las Vegas PR whiz and amateur sleuth, goes undercover as 19-year-old Xoe Chloe Ozone on a reality TV show, Teen Idol
, in Douglas's 17th Midnight Louie caper (after 2004's Cat in an Orange Twist
), one of the...
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Carole Nelson Douglas, Author . Forge $19.95 (383p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1400-0
Midnight Louie, hard-boiled feline PI, and his human pal, Temple Barr ("Miss Nancy Drew on killer spikes"), whose Vegas PR jobs invariably land her in shark-infested hot water, team up for their 18th cat-astrophically cool crime caper (after
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Carole Nelson Douglas, Author . Forge $24.95 (382p) ISBN 978-0-765-31401-7
In Douglas's arch 19th cat caper (after 2006's Cat in a Quicksilver Caper
), feline sleuth Midnight Louie and his human companion, PR whiz Temple Barr, scramble to clear the name of their friend and landlady, Electra Lark, when Electra's
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Carole Nelson Douglas, Author . Juno $7.99 (348p) ISBN 978-0-8095-7304-2
Filled with kisses and kick-ass action, the second installment of this campy series (after 2007's Dances with Werewolves
) finds paranormal investigator Delilah Street taking on her first case in an alternate 2010 Las Vegas. When Delilah and...
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Carole Nelson Douglas, Author . Forge $24.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1862-6
In Douglas's glitzy 21st Midnight Louie mystery (after 2008's Cat in a Sapphire Slipper
), Temple Barr, Las Vegas PR whiz, goes undercover at a charity dance contest featuring celebrities like Temple's radio star fiancé, Matt...
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Carole Nelson Douglas, Author Ballantine Books $3.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-345-31993-7
As the daughter of a famous newspaper editor, Liz Jordan is destined to become a reporter. Indeed, her success story practically writes itself. She earns a journalism degree and is immediately hired as a reporter for a Midwest newspaper, where she...
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Carole Nelson Douglas, Author Forge $23.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-86386-9
Midnight Louie takes Manhattan by storm as he and his human companion, Temple Barr, breeze into town at Christmas for his audition for the job of feline spokesperson for the Alpetco cat food account. Competition is fierce, but the newly vasectomized
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Carole Nelson Douglas, Author Forge $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-86635-8
Las Vegas feline detective Midnight Louie and his flamboyant keeper Temple Barr, a noted sleuth in her own right, draw a full hand of excitement in this 10th adventure. Homicide detective and closet chanteuse Carmen Molina finds a dead woman next to
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Carole Nelson Douglas, Author Forge $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-86817-8
Douglas aims at two subcultures in addition to her usual target of cat lovers in her latest Midnight Louie caper (after Cat in an Indigo Mood, Forecasts, Mar. 15). This time, Temple Bar's all-black, crime-solving tomcat finds his whiskers twitching...
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Carole Nelson Douglas, Author Forge $24.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-312-86955-7
Even diehard fans may have trouble keeping the various narrative voices and story strands straight in Nelson's 11th mystery to feature Las Vegas's Temple Barr and her gumshoe cat, Midnight Louie. When homicide detective Carmen Molina asks former...
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Carole Nelson Douglas, Author Forge $24.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0683-8
The game's afoot and dancing in Douglas's eighth historical thriller featuring the dynamic Irene Adler Norton, her able assistant Penelope ""Nell"" Huxleigh and that clever human bloodhound, Sherlock Holmes. At the end of their last adventure (2003's
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Carole Nelson Douglas. Forge, $24.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2747-5
In Douglas’s convoluted 24th feline noir (after 2011’s Cat in a Vegas Gold Vendetta), Las Vegas public relations expert Temple Barr, now engaged to media star Matt Devine, takes PI Midnight Louie with her to meet Matt’s family in Chicago, where...
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Carole Nelson Douglas, Author, Fred Saberhagen, Author Tor Books $18.95 (244p) ISBN 978-0-312-93142-1
Middle age is creeping up on the Torloc seeress Irissa and her husband Kendric, Wrathman of Rule, in the latest installment of Douglas's extended fantasy saga. Their teenage children are quite enough to keep them busy as their daughter Javelle...
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