A Cat on Stage Left by Lydia Adamson features catsitter/actress/accidental detective Alice Nestleton in her 16th adventure. Mary Singer offers Alice a large sum of money to watch her cat. When Mary attempts to deliver the animal, her chauffeur shoots her before Alice's horrified eyes. After a grueling session at the police station, Alice returns home to discover that her charge is a stuffed cat. Alice looks for an old acquaintance who supposedly recommended her to the victim and stumbles across a bizarre plot involving several of her old acting buddies and many unwary women.

-Sue Reider