Penelope Davis has agreed to take care of a friend's parrot while he's in the hospital, but the parrot has escaped from the cage and is waging war with Penelope's fifteen cats. Jennifer Gray saves the parrot from the cats (or vice versa), and takes the bird back to the parsonage. But Scaramouch (Scamp) is no ordinary parrot, and he has an interesting tale to tell of treachery and treasure. At first Jennifer ignores his chattering, but she soon decides that the bird may indeed know a secret. And that secret turns out to be both very, very valuable, and very, very deadly.
Like other fictional characters, female sleuths may live in the past or the future. They may represent current times with some level of reality or shape their settings to suit an agenda. There are audiences for both realism and escapism in the mystery novel. It is interesting, however, to compare the fictional world of the mystery sleuth with the world in which readers live. Of course, mystery readers do not share one simplistic world. They live in urban, suburban, and rural areas, as do the female heroines in the books they read. They may choose a book because it has a familiar background or because it takes them to places they long to visit. Readers may be rich or poor; young or old; conservative or liberal. So are the heroines. What incredible choices there are today in mystery series! This three-volume encyclopedia of women characters in the mystery novel is like a gigantic menu. Like a menu, the descriptions of the items that are provided are subjective. Volume 3 of Mystery Women as currently updated adds an additional 42 sleuths to the 500 plus who were covered in the initial Volume 3. These are more recently discovered sleuths who were introduced during the period from January 1, 1990 to December 31, 1999. This more than doubles the number of sleuths introduced in the 1980s (298 of whom were covered in Volume 2) and easily exceeded the 347 series (and some outstanding individuals) described in Volume 1, which covered a 130-year period from 1860-1979. It also includes updates on those individuals covered in the first edition; changes in status, short reviews of books published since the first edition through December 31, 2008.
The Tenacious Terrier Caper is the eighth book in the Jennifer Gray Veterinarian Mystery Series. The other seven books, The Unlucky Collie Caper, The Dog Named Elvis Caper, The Deadly Dog-Bone Caper, The Black Cat Caper, The Telltale Turkey Caper, The Precocious Parrot Caper, The Mischievous Monkey Caper, and The Potbellied Pig Caper are also available.
When Peaches, a chimpanzee, is kidnapped, the whole town enters the hunt to find her before her life can be traded for the recipe for the Cromwell Sisters' homemade elixer.
Calico is holding a six-day spectacular over Labor Day, but there's more than just festivities going on in this sleepy little Nebraska town. First of all, there's the sudden appearance of counterfeit money, and the equally sudden appearance of Paul Bishop, a handsome blond-haired man with a beautiful dog named Casey. Next, there's the picture that veterinarian Jennifer Gray bought from Elmer Dodd that he is trying to buy back at a much higher price. Attracted to a possible counterfeiter, and the owner of a painting in great demand, Jennifer doesn't exactly know what is going on...but she is determined to find out!
A mystery in a storage depot featuring Devonie Lace of California who buys up the contents of expired units. One unit yields a rifle and a great deal of cash, and that is when her troubles begin.
Grace Beckmann, using such resources as her journalistic background, twin sixteen-year-old sons, and her weekly tennis group, sets out to make sense of a puzzling airplane accident.
When Kathryn Bogert lookin in Gertrude Trent's freezer, she expects to find the body of Gertrude's beloved dog, Winston. Instead she finds the body of Gertrude's favorite tenant.
