From Kirkus Reviews
The seventh chapter in the seemingly endless saga of Midnight Louie, the self-adoring cat who lives with Las Vegas p.r., sometimes p.i., woman Temple Barr (Cat with an Emerald Eye, 1996, etc.). This time, Temple is busy promoting artist Domingo's installation of a million plastic flamingos all over town and supervising Louie's performance in a TV cat-food commercial. Louie's costar is the love of his life, Yvette, owned by hyper has- been actress Savannah Ashleigh. Meanwhile, Temple's own emotional life is complicated by fuzzy attachments to the temporarily vanished magician Max Kinsella and to ex-priest Matt Devine, presently working the suicide watch on a local hotline. In a chance encounter, Temple meets aging star act Darren Cooke, as famous for his sex life as for his stage career. He wants advice on the anonymous letters he's been getting from a woman claiming to be his daughter. Soon after, Cooke is found shot to death in his penthouse suite and declared a suicide. But Temple has her doubts, and Matt wonders whether Cooke was the persistent caller on his hotline who repeatedly said he was a famous person. As his mistress starts nosing into Cooke's affairs, carefully keeping out of the way of Police Lt. Molina, Louie is having his own problems on the set- -plagued by longtime enemy Maurice and frustrated in his play for Yvette. The whole unlikely mess is eventually resolved at inordinate length, with a melodramatic confession from an unexpected source. Masses of inane cat chat and psychobabble, convoluted plotting, and showy but dull characters: strictly for Louie fans and lovers of the frenetic Las Vegas scene, rendered here in all its tacky detail. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.


Review
"You never know what madness and mayhem you'll find in Douglas's mysteries, but you can be sure it will be wild, witty, and utterly irresistible."--The San Francisco Chronicle

"Douglas leads her readers on a merry chase before neatly drawing these disparate thread together. Midnight Louie's fans will be delighted."--Publishers Weekly



Review
"You never know what madness and mayhem you'll find in Douglas's mysteries, but you can be sure it will be wild, witty, and utterly irresistible."--The San Francisco Chronicle

"Douglas leads her readers on a merry chase before neatly drawing these disparate thread together. Midnight Louie's fans will be delighted."--Publishers Weekly



Review
"You never know what madness and mayhem you'll find in Douglas's mysteries, but you can be sure it will be wild, witty, and utterly irresistible."--The San Francisco Chronicle

"Douglas leads her readers on a merry chase before neatly drawing these disparate thread together. Midnight Louie's fans will be delighted."--Publishers Weekly



Book Description
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 question: Was this really a murder, or was Cooke a tortured funnyman who finally rang down his own curtain.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

In Cat in a Flamingo Fedora, Midnight Louie thinks starring in cat food commercials will be a much needed crime-free lark while his flame-haired human partner, Temple Barr, plays hooky from mayhem by helping world-famous conceptual artist Domingo swathe Las Vegas sights in nine hundred thousand pink plastic flamingos. But life is never easy for this toothsome 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 the person stalking him was his unacknowledged daughter, and she is determined to find out the truth. As Temple goes about unearthing the women in and out of Cooke's life, she finds herself with a dangerous question: Was this really a murder, or was Cooke a tortured funnyman who finally rang down his own curtain? And who will be left alive when the deadly game of cat and mouse ends?

FROM THE CRITICS

Kirkus Reviews

The seventh chapter in the seemingly endless saga of Midnight Louie, the self-adoring cat who lives with Las Vegas p.r., sometimes p.i., woman Temple Barr (Cat with an Emerald Eye, 1996, etc.). This time, Temple is busy promoting artist Domingo's installation of a million plastic flamingos all over town and supervising Louie's performance in a TV cat-food commercial. Louie's costar is the love of his life, Yvette, owned by hyper has- been actress Savannah Ashleigh. Meanwhile, Temple's own emotional life is complicated by fuzzy attachments to the temporarily vanished magician Max Kinsella and to ex-priest Matt Devine, presently working the suicide watch on a local hotline. In a chance encounter, Temple meets aging star act Darren Cooke, as famous for his sex life as for his stage career. He wants advice on the anonymous letters he's been getting from a woman claiming to be his daughter. Soon after, Cooke is found shot to death in his penthouse suite and declared a suicide. But Temple has her doubts, and Matt wonders whether Cooke was the persistent caller on his hotline who repeatedly said he was a famous person. As his mistress starts nosing into Cooke's affairs, carefully keeping out of the way of Police Lt. Molina, Louie is having his own problems on the set—plagued by longtime enemy Maurice and frustrated in his play for Yvette. The whole unlikely mess is eventually resolved at inordinate length, with a melodramatic confession from an unexpected source.

Masses of inane cat chat and psychobabble, convoluted plotting, and showy but dull characters: strictly for Louie fans and lovers of the frenetic Las Vegas scene, rendered here in all its tacky detail.