Cat and a Playing Card Books

Nicky Fontana hires Van von Rhine to manage an abandoned Las Vegas hotel and the pair find themselves in danger and realize they are falling in love

In Book 2 of the original Midnight Louie quartet, shy Darcy McGill would love to teach her attractively stuffy writing professor a few things about the real world. When the professor meets Darcy's "showgirl sister" Sirene in her Crystal Phoenix dressing room, the showgirl takes the professor for a walk on the wild side. When one of Sirene's spurned suitors decides he wants her at any cost, can Midnight Louie help the Professor save Sirene and discover which woman he really loves?

Pistol-packing poker queen Jill O'Rourke is an Annie Oakley at nailing targets or cards. She needs to be sharp at both, since she secretly supports her desert-rat grandfather and his cronies on her poker winnings -- a dangerous profession for a young, pint-sized woman in Las Vegas. Stardusted balladeer Johnny Diamond finds himself a prisoner of fame when a stalker threatens him. Love and death are in the cards, but the jet-black feline house detective known as Midnight Louie sees all, knows all, and gets his paws into the action.

When a tourist named Gayle meets up with a mysterious stranger named Solitaire at the Crystal Phoenix Hotel in Las Vegas, she quickly learns she isn't in Kansas anymore. A double-dealing pair of hit men send the unlikely couple running for their lives into the surrounding desert. But by the time the sand settles after a desert showdown, both love and money come up winners as Midnight Louie, feline private eye extraordinaire, once again successfully combines the roles of Sam Spade and Cupid. This is the final chapter of the original Midnight Louie Quartet and is the author's preferred edition with the original text restored.