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Midnight Louie #7
Cat in a Flamingo Fedora
That rough-and-tumble black tomcat Midnight Louie and his flame-haired human companion, temple barr, think shooting a cat food commercial will allow them to play hooky from mayhem. But life is never easy for the vivacious pair, and Temple and Louie are center stage when beloved comic actor (and notorious ladies' man) Darren Cooke is shot to death. Cooke had asked Temple to find out if a mysterious stalker was his unacknowledged daughter, and she is determined to find out the truth. But the search for truth raised a dangerous Was this really a murder, or was Cooke a tortured funnyman who finally rang down his own curtain.
384 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1997
About the author
Carole Nelson Douglas
168 books571 followersCarole Nelson Douglas is the author of sixty-four award-winning novels in contemporary and historical mystery/suspense and romance, high and urban fantasy and science fiction genres. She is best known for two popular mystery series, the Irene Adler Sherlockian historical suspense series (she was the first woman to spin-off a series from the Holmes stories) and the multi-award-winning alphabetically titled Midnight Louie contemporary mystery series. From Cat in an Alphabet Soup #1 to Cat in an Alphabet Endgame #28.
Delilah Street, PI (Paranormal Investigator), headlines Carole's noir Urban Fantasy series: Dancing With Werewolves, Brimstone Kiss, Vampire Sunrise, Silver Zombie, and Virtual Virgin. Now Delilah has moved from her paranormal Vegas to Midnight Louie, feline PI's "Slightly surreal" Vegas to solve crimes in the first book of the new Cafe Noir series, Absinthe Without Leave. Next in 2020, Brandi Alexander on the Rocks.
Once Upon a Midnight Noir is out in eBook and trade paperback versions. This author-designed and illustrated collection of three mystery stories with a paranormal twist and a touch of romance features two award-winning stories featuring Midnight Louie, feline PI and Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator in a supernatural-run Las Vegas. A third story completes the last unfinished story fragment of Edgar Allan Poe, as a Midnight Louie Past Life adventure set in 1790 Norland on a isolated island lighthouse. Louie is a soldier of fortune, a la Puss in Boots.
Next out are Midnight Louie's Cat in an Alphabet Endgame in hardcover, trade paperback and eBook Aug. 23, 2016.
All the Irene Adler novels, the first to feature a woman from the Sherlock Holmes Canon as a crime solver, are now available in eBook.
Carole was a college theater and English literature major. She was accepted for grad school in Theater at the University of Minnesota and Northwestern University, and could have worked as an editorial assistant at Vogue magazine (a la The Devil Wears Prada) but wanted a job closer to home. She worked as a newspaper reporter and then editor in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. During her time there, she discovered a long, expensive classified advertisement offering a black cat named Midnight Louey to the "right" home for one dollar and wrote a feature story on the plucky survival artist, putting it into the cat's point of view. The cat found a country home, but its name was revived for her feline PI mystery series many years later. Some of the Midnight Louie series entries include the dedication "For the real and original Midnight Louie. Nine lives were not enough." Midnight Louie has now had 32 novelistic lives and features in several short stories as well.
Hollywood and Broadway director, playwright, screenwriter and novelist Garson Kanin took Carole's first novel to his publisher on the basis of an interview/article she'd done with him five years earlier. "My friend Phil Silvers," he wrote, "would say he'd never won an interview yet, but he had never had the luck of you."
Carole is a "literary chameleon" who's had novels published in many genres, and often mixes such genre elements as mystery and suspense, fantasy and science fiction, romance with mainstream issues, especially the roles of women.
Delilah Street, PI (Paranormal Investigator), headlines Carole's noir Urban Fantasy series: Dancing With Werewolves, Brimstone Kiss, Vampire Sunrise, Silver Zombie, and Virtual Virgin. Now Delilah has moved from her paranormal Vegas to Midnight Louie, feline PI's "Slightly surreal" Vegas to solve crimes in the first book of the new Cafe Noir series, Absinthe Without Leave. Next in 2020, Brandi Alexander on the Rocks.
Once Upon a Midnight Noir is out in eBook and trade paperback versions. This author-designed and illustrated collection of three mystery stories with a paranormal twist and a touch of romance features two award-winning stories featuring Midnight Louie, feline PI and Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator in a supernatural-run Las Vegas. A third story completes the last unfinished story fragment of Edgar Allan Poe, as a Midnight Louie Past Life adventure set in 1790 Norland on a isolated island lighthouse. Louie is a soldier of fortune, a la Puss in Boots.
Next out are Midnight Louie's Cat in an Alphabet Endgame in hardcover, trade paperback and eBook Aug. 23, 2016.
All the Irene Adler novels, the first to feature a woman from the Sherlock Holmes Canon as a crime solver, are now available in eBook.
Carole was a college theater and English literature major. She was accepted for grad school in Theater at the University of Minnesota and Northwestern University, and could have worked as an editorial assistant at Vogue magazine (a la The Devil Wears Prada) but wanted a job closer to home. She worked as a newspaper reporter and then editor in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. During her time there, she discovered a long, expensive classified advertisement offering a black cat named Midnight Louey to the "right" home for one dollar and wrote a feature story on the plucky survival artist, putting it into the cat's point of view. The cat found a country home, but its name was revived for her feline PI mystery series many years later. Some of the Midnight Louie series entries include the dedication "For the real and original Midnight Louie. Nine lives were not enough." Midnight Louie has now had 32 novelistic lives and features in several short stories as well.
Hollywood and Broadway director, playwright, screenwriter and novelist Garson Kanin took Carole's first novel to his publisher on the basis of an interview/article she'd done with him five years earlier. "My friend Phil Silvers," he wrote, "would say he'd never won an interview yet, but he had never had the luck of you."
Carole is a "literary chameleon" who's had novels published in many genres, and often mixes such genre elements as mystery and suspense, fantasy and science fiction, romance with mainstream issues, especially the roles of women.
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March 31, 2011
Louis gets a vasectomy, very little advancement of plots
December 20, 2023
One of the mysteries here concerns a repeat caller to Matt at his counseling hotline. The caller is what Matt and Temple call a “sex addict.” (This series reflects viewpoints and opinions that were acceptable in the mid-1990s, so some things are not politically correct in 2023. BTW, I’m exactly the same age as Temple, although at age 30 Temple is still single whereas I was married with 2 kids.)
Temple is currently running interference for an art installation project that plans to place 1,000,000 plastic flamingos around Las Vegas. Her job is to convince hotel and casino owners that this is a good idea that will draw even more attention and business. The “artist,” Domingo something, is famous for this sort of art exhibitions. The flamingos are manufactured mostly in Central and South America at the price of $9.95 per pair ($4,975,000!). I could only think of how current environmentalists would rage! Anyway, the artist is well known for his philandering.
At the same time there is a comedic actor named Darren Cooke also is in town for a show; he, too, is notorious for his many affairs. So Matt and Temple consider both of them to be candidates for Matt’s mysterious caller, when Darren Cooke is found dead in his hotel room from an apparent suicide.
Meanwhile, Louie and the Divine Yvette are making a cat food commercial. Yvette’s owner, Savannah Ashleigh, thinks Louie is the tomcat who has impregnated her precious Yvette and kidnaps Louie. She takes him to her plastic surgeon who performs a feline vasectomy, thus rendering Louie unable to father kittens but leaves him otherwise his normal self. (Ms. Douglas is careful to tell her readers this is a fictional surgery.)
I liked this one better than the last, naturally, because Matt gets a lot of page time and Max does not appear much. Team Matt all the way!
Temple is currently running interference for an art installation project that plans to place 1,000,000 plastic flamingos around Las Vegas. Her job is to convince hotel and casino owners that this is a good idea that will draw even more attention and business. The “artist,” Domingo something, is famous for this sort of art exhibitions. The flamingos are manufactured mostly in Central and South America at the price of $9.95 per pair ($4,975,000!). I could only think of how current environmentalists would rage! Anyway, the artist is well known for his philandering.
At the same time there is a comedic actor named Darren Cooke also is in town for a show; he, too, is notorious for his many affairs. So Matt and Temple consider both of them to be candidates for Matt’s mysterious caller, when Darren Cooke is found dead in his hotel room from an apparent suicide.
Meanwhile, Louie and the Divine Yvette are making a cat food commercial. Yvette’s owner, Savannah Ashleigh, thinks Louie is the tomcat who has impregnated her precious Yvette and kidnaps Louie. She takes him to her plastic surgeon who performs a feline vasectomy, thus rendering Louie unable to father kittens but leaves him otherwise his normal self. (Ms. Douglas is careful to tell her readers this is a fictional surgery.)
I liked this one better than the last, naturally, because Matt gets a lot of page time and Max does not appear much. Team Matt all the way!
July 17, 2018
I'm catching up on the Midnight Louie series, by going back to read the ones I missed (in alphabetical order, naturally). This time, the Runyonesque cat is co-starring in a kibble ad with his beloved Divine Yvette ... while his "little doll," Temple Barr is working with an artist (Domingo) creating an installation of flamingos all over Las Vegas.
Of course, it isn't long before someone is dead -- and this time, Temple herself is a suspect! So, working with her intrepid wanna-be beaux, Max and Matt, she has to clear her name.
I was delighted and entertained by this cute cozy in a favorite series.
Of course, it isn't long before someone is dead -- and this time, Temple herself is a suspect! So, working with her intrepid wanna-be beaux, Max and Matt, she has to clear her name.
I was delighted and entertained by this cute cozy in a favorite series.
August 13, 2017
An artist making a "statement" with tens of thousands of plastic flamingos, a comic actor shot to death, and mayhem galore for Temple Barr and Midnight Louie to cope with make this another entertaining adventure into the life and times of the Las Vegas free lance PR expert.
There is the usual angst with Max, Matt, and lieutenant Molina complicating life for Temple, but MIdnight Louie and Temple manage once again to survive and somewhat save the day.
There is the usual angst with Max, Matt, and lieutenant Molina complicating life for Temple, but MIdnight Louie and Temple manage once again to survive and somewhat save the day.
June 7, 2022
I didn’t enjoy this book quite as much as the previous one I read. That is probably because I jumped from book 2 in the series to book 7, because my library did not have books 3-6. There are certain plot twists that are confusing, such as where did Max come back from and when?
I did end up spending 20-30 minutes trying to track down the Vampire motorcycle featured in the book. ( It’s a rare motorcycle made in Britain in the 1980’s.)
I did end up spending 20-30 minutes trying to track down the Vampire motorcycle featured in the book. ( It’s a rare motorcycle made in Britain in the 1980’s.)
June 19, 2019
Sleuthing cats are always fun for us cat owners. Louie seems to be very clever in his crime solving adventures and character judgments.
This is the first book by Douglas I have read and Vegas is a good spot for cats to get into mischievousness. Lots of action around Louie and his human, Temple.
This is the first book by Douglas I have read and Vegas is a good spot for cats to get into mischievousness. Lots of action around Louie and his human, Temple.
February 1, 2019
Poor Loiue! He gets in scrape after scrape.
May 7, 2026
Author has a creepy obsession with a daughter father obsession. It makes no s and that Ashleigh takes midnight Louis to get fixed without paperwork nor anything
April 13, 2016
Since I don't normally write reviews unless I have something specific to say, here's the break down of how I rate my books...
1 star... This book was bad, so bad I may have given up and skipped to the end. I will avoid this author like the plague in the future.
2 stars... This book was not very good, and I won't be reading any more from the author.
3 stars... This book was ok, but I won't go out of my way to read more, But if I find another book by the author for under a dollar I'd pick it up.
4 stars... I really enjoyed this book and will definitely be on the look out to pick up more from the series/author.
5 stars... I loved this book! It has earned a permanent home in my collection and I'll be picking up the rest of the series and other books from the author ASAP.
July 4, 2012
Where there is cat food there are cats. Where there are female cats that's where you will find Midnight Louie! Temple Barr is doing her best to help promote a new cat food with a commercial in Sin City, while trying to figure out if the dead body committed suicide or was murdered. In the mean time it's going to be up to Midnight Louie to keep Temple from meeting the same fate as the dead comedian. Not to worry Louie is on the case.
June 11, 2010
I hadn't previously read any of the Midnight Louie mystery series, and although this wasn't a perfect novel -- with the plot being rather transparent and forced at times -- it was nonetheless amusing enough that I will likely read more in the series.
August 13, 2013
Been so long since I read, can't really comment on this specific book. However love the series. midnight Louie is one handsome and smart "DUDE" AKA CAT that only cat lovers will understand. Catlovers will understand
December 16, 2009
Another one down in the Midnight Louie series. It's interesting seeing how the charcters unfold. I think once this series end, I may rerate it much higher.
February 5, 2011
Liked it better than the last one. Still enjoying these enough to continue the series.
October 12, 2013
loved this. And it's a series
February 17, 2016
Oh Midnight Louie, where have you been all my life?
I need to find more of these.
I need to find more of these.
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May 16, 2011Midnight Louie
August 17, 2012
Midnight Louie and his person Temple Barr find trouble at a commercial shoot.
March 29, 2013
A fun read.
February 27, 2014
The language an descriptions were interesting, but the plot dragged. No plot no story!
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