The Big Catnap

Sam the Cat Mystery #2

by Linda Stewart

His first adventure sold more than 240,000 copies and was nominated for the Mystery Writers Edgar Award. Now Sam is back in another hairy tale. When Sandy, the star of a long-running series of cat food commercials, mysteriously disappears, Sam's little sister puts him on the case. Sam finds he's bitten off more than he chew.

Genres: Mystery, Cats, Animals, Fantasy

136 pages, Paperback

Published August 1, 2000

About the author

Linda Stewart, who’s been nominated for Edgar and Agatha awards, has written "something of everything"--17 published novels and novelizations (under her own name and a variety of pseudonyms); television dramas and documentaries, magazine journalism, newspaper book reviews (Washington Post and Chi Trib, among others); advertising copy (at 4A agencies and, later, freelance), and lyrics, sketches and special material for nightclubs and Off-Broadway. She has also taught writing and literature courses at The School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Her novels have been reviewed by The New York Times Sunday Book Review, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Post, New York Newsday, The Baltimore Sun, The Philadelphia Inquirer, January Magazine, and TV Guide, among many others. Her biography appears in “Contemporary Authors” Vol. 101; “Who’s Who in Entertainment,” (1988-1993) and “Voyage au bout de la Noire” Gallimard, Paris, 1986.

She is the niece of Morrie Ryskind, the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright ("Of Thee I Sing") and screenwriter (most of the Marx Brothers movies) and was married to screenwriter Donald Stewart ("Jackson County Jail," "Hunt for Red October," and "Missing," among others).

Reviews

[Iva]

Друга частина навіть ліпша. Викрадення, втечі, "називайте нас американцями котячого походження" та "Я народилася на фермі в Нью-Джерсі..." і оце все, коли белетн=ристика намагається бути соц-актуальною. Знову бадьоро, знову смішно.

З мінусів хіба що неможливість знайти заключну частину трилогії та зміна перекладача (а разом із тим і локалізації імен, ну яка "Иностранка" так робить?).

[Megan]

9 yr old me would have loved it! While more of a adventure than a mystery, it still was entertaining and even a little suspenseful (if you forget that it's a children's novel that is obligated to end well).

[Susan]

Sam the cat is hired to find Sandy, a famous cat who does catfood commercials, and who is a friend of Sam's. An eyewitness tells Sam that Sandy was kidnapped by a man in a van, but finding the missing cat is not as simple as Sam hoped. Delightful "noir" children's book!

[Monique Kirkley]

Cute story but not as good as the first. 😫

[Ashini Karu]

А вот эта часть уже откровенно нудновата и, местами, как будто вымученна. Ещё и переводчика попинать хочется, и не только за то, что она за каким-то хером переименовала Сэнди в Персика.

[King Haddock]

This book was just as good as the first book and I enjoyed it a lot. You have to love all the jokes around the Cat Slop commercials, even if the humor is a bit repetitive.

[Gretchen Ingram]

This may be better than the first one... it is certainly not to be missed by mystery lovers who own or know cats, no matter what age.