Whiskers in the Dark

Welcome to Carabas, where cats and dogs live togetherbut harmony comes at a price.Searching for his missing Siamese girlfriend Moira, feline journalist Julius Kyle bravely ventures beyond the city he knows into a wilderness governed by feral cats and ravenous rats.In the town of Carabas, just beyond the forest's reach, Julius allies himself with a big-eared military lynx and a snowshoe hooked on catnip. Just as Moira's trail finally grows warm, Julius learns that something nasty has followed him from the wilderness. The fur is sure to fly in this sequel to the bestselling Milk Treading.

Only the bravest felines dare to enter the Isle of Dogs.On the trail of a missing inventor called Quincy, cat reporter Julius Kyle follows a dangerous trail through mountains and savannahs to Alcander, a city built and run by canines. With the help of his streetwise Siamese partner Moira, he uncovers a conspiracy to overthrow the lapdog government and unleash the underdogs who make the city tick.Back in Julius's hometown, a mayoral election heats up. The candidates are all willing to do anything to win, from caging the incumbent mayor, to setting his mother adrift at sea with no one for company but a Tonkinese toady. While the candidates face an incursion of vermin, Julius must find Quincy before he builds a weapon capable of ruining the dogs' world forever.

In a dark, seedy world full of bad cats, a lone detective is puzzled by a city-spanning crime that has him licked. Nub City is in the grip of a Depression, and its cat inhabitants are getting desperate. They'll resort to thievery, deception, and even murder to fill their furry bellies. It doesn't help that mice are an untouchable, endangered species, and the cats have to get their favorite food from illegal squeakeasies. Only a few good cats keep the streets safe. One of those cats is Tiger Straight, private detective, who braves the city's underbelly to solve crimes with a sour-milk wit. Tiger is hired by dangerous dame Connie Hant, who's lost her brothers through mysterious circumstances. With the help of his assistant Bug, Tiger prowls the mean streets of Nub, sniffing for clues and getting up to his whiskers in trouble. As more murders occur and the mystery deepens, Tiger finds more than he bargained forincluding a dizzy witness, an attempt by the bad guys to bury him in kitty litter, and a romance with a beautiful make-up artist. And what does Little Tim, a refuse-collecting cat, have to do with it all? Tiger is determined to find out in this epic detective thriller. From the pages of the bestselling novel “Milk Treading”, “The Cat Who Stole the Cream” brings feline scribe Julius Kyle's hairball-spitting hero, Tiger Straight, vividly to life.

Welcome to Carabas, where cats and dogs live together-but harmony comes at a price. Searching for his missing Siamese girlfriend Moira, feline journalist Julius Kyle bravely ventures beyond the city he knows into a wilderness governed by feral cats and ravenous rats. In the town of Carabas, just beyond the forest's reach, Julius allies himself with a big-eared military lynx and a snowshoe hooked on catnip. Just as Moira's trail finally grows warm, Julius learns that something nasty has followed him from the wilderness. The fur is sure to fly in this sequel to the bestselling Milk Treading.

Danger prowls around every corner in Bast. Julius Kyle is a down-at-paw journalist with a nose for news, a volatile love life, and an addiction to sour milk. When his editor tells him to investigate a friend's tragic death, Julius finds himself in the Doghouse, a bad neighborhood on the wrong side of the river. There he finds a gang war that threatens to tear his city apart. Julius's investigation unearths a world of corrupt politics, fluffy assassins, savage dogs, and even an unlikely romance. Amidst the peril, he's determined to write his story and right the wrongs, even if it means using up all nine of his lives.

In a dark, seedy world full of bad cats, a lone detective is puzzled by a city-spanning crime that has him licked. Nub City is in the grip of a Depression, and its cat inhabitants are getting desperate. They'll resort to thievery, deception, and even murder to fill their furry bellies. It doesn't help that mice are an untouchable, endangered species, and the cats have to get their favorite food from illegal squeakeasies. Only a few good cats keep the streets safe. One of those cats is Tiger Straight, private detective, who braves the city's underbelly to solve crimes with a sour-milk wit. Tiger is hired by dangerous dame Connie Hant, who's lost her brothers through mysterious circumstances. With the help of his assistant Bug, Tiger prowls the mean streets of Nub, sniffing for clues and getting up to his whiskers in trouble. As more murders occur and the mystery deepens, Tiger finds more than he bargained for-including a dizzy witness, an attempt by the bad guys to bury him in kitty litter, and a romance with a beautiful make-up artist. And what does Little Tim, a refuse-collecting cat, have to do with it all? Tiger is determined to find out in this epic detective thriller. From the pages of the bestselling novel Milk Treading, The Cat Who Stole the Cream brings feline scribe Julius Kyle's hairball-spitting hero, Tiger Straight, vividly to life.

Only the bravest felines dare to enter the Isle of Dogs. On the trail of a missing inventor called Quincy, cat reporter Julius Kyle follows a dangerous trail through mountains and savannahs to Alcander, a city built and run by canines. With the help of his streetwise Siamese partner Moira, he uncovers a conspiracy to overthrow the lapdog government and unleash the underdogs who make the city tick. Back in Julius's hometown, a mayoral election heats up. The candidates are all willing to do anything to win, from caging the incumbent mayor, to setting his mother adrift at sea with no one for company but a Tonkinese toady. While the candidates face an incursion of vermin, Julius must find Quincy before he builds a weapon capable of ruining the dogs' world forever.