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Cat In A Topaz Tango

Temple Barr and Matt Devine make a cozy engaged couple, and the feisty redhead is all for her handsome radio host fiance staring in a week-long televised Las Vegas charity event, "Dancing with the Celebs." But while ex-priest Matt struggles to master the sexy moves of the tango, a killer stalks the dance floor. Not only is Matt in danger, but so is the lovely tween Mariah, daughter of homicide cop C. R. Molina, who is dancing in the Junior Division of the show. And so Temple gets dragooned into resurrecting her kicky teen persona, Zoe Chloe Ozone, now an Internet hottie, to ensure Matt and Mariah don't foxtrot into a fatal misstep. Where is Louie in all this? Well, he's out and about, proving that he's still the cat's meow. But he's got his paws full as he tries to keep all the various players in his little troupe from dancing right into death's arms....in *Cat in a Topaz Tango,* the twenty-first installment in Carole Nelson Douglas's beloved Midnight Louie...

Кэрол Нельсон Дуглас

Детективы18+

Cat in a

Topaz Tango

By Carole Nelson Douglas from Tom Doherty Associates

MYSTERY

MIDNIGHT LOUIE MYSTERIES

Catnap

Cat in a Leopard Spot

Pussyfoot

Cat in a Midnight Choir

Cat on a Blue Monday

Cat in a Neon Nightmare

Cat in a Crimson Haze

Cat in an Orange Twist

Cat in a Diamond Dazzle

Cat in a Hot Pink Pursuit

Cat with an Emerald Eye

Cat in a Quicksilver Caper

Cat in a Flamingo Fedora

Cat in a Red Hot Rage

Cat in a Golden Garland

Cat in a Sapphire Slipper

Cat on a Hyacinth Hunt

Cat in a Topaz Tango

Cat in an Indigo Mood

Midnight Louie’s Pet Detectives

Cat in a Jeweled Jumpsuit

(anthology)

Cat in a Kiwi Con

IRENE ADLER ADVENTURES

Good Night, Mr. Holmes

The Adventuress^*(Good Morning, Irene)

A Soul of Steel^* (Irene at Large)

Another Scandal in Bohemia^* (Irene’s Last Waltz)

Chapel Noir

Castle Rouge

Femme Fatale

Spider Dance

Marilyn: Shades of Blonde (anthology)

HISTORICAL

ROMANCE

Amberleigh^†

Lady Rogue^†

Fair Wind, Fiery Star

SCIENCE

FICTION

Probe^†

Counterprobe^†

FANTASY

TALISWOMAN

Cup of Clay

Seed upon the Wind

SWORD AND CIRCLET

Six of Swords

Exiles of the Rynth

Keepers of Edanvant

Heir of Rengarth

Seven of Swords

^*These are the reissued editions.

^†Also mystery

Cat in a

Topaz Tango

A MIDNIGHT LOUIE MYSTERY

Carole Nelson Douglas

A Tom Doherty Associates

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CAT IN A TOPAZ TANGO

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Douglas, Carole Nelson.

Cat in a topaz tango : a midnight Louie mystery / Carole Nelson Douglas.—1st hardcover ed.

p. cm.

“A Tom Doherty Associates book.”

ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1862-6

ISBN-10: 0-7653-1862-8

1. Midnight Louie (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Barr, Temple (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 3. Women cat owners—Fiction. 4. Cats—Fiction. 5. Las Vegas (Nev.)—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3554.o8237c27698 2009

813'.54—dc22

2009012866

First Edition: August 2009

Printed in the United States of America

0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

For the late Mary Katherine Marion, a friend

who was fun, fearless, and fashionable,

clever, creative, and supportive,

and for all the great times we had together

Contents

Previously in Midnight Louie’s Lives and Times . . .