Marian Babson

This whimsical mystery starring an actor who takes a fall and wakes up as a feline is "quite simply, the cat's meow" (Publishers Weekly). Shakespearean actor Winstanley Fortescue is known as a hound dog when it comes to the ladies. But when someone pushes him off a ladder, he falls on the theater's resident cat—and somehow the two of them wind up trading bodies. It takes a while to get used to living on four legs, but it's the perfect way for Winstanley...

Aging actress Dame Cecile Savoy is on the way to a Brighton taxidermist's shop, accompanied by her friends Trixie and Evangeline-and her recently departed Pekingese. But when they arrive, they discover a dead body, a spreading fire, and a helpless Japanese bobtail cat in a cage. After rescuing the endangered kitty, aka Cho-Cho-San, Trixie and Evangeline now have another heroic task to attempt: finding out who's responsible, and what sort of person...

Margot has come back to England from America to show solidarity with her extended family in the midst of a scandalous murder trial. Cousin Chloe stands accused of stabbing her identical twin sister, Claudia, and Margot's well-to-do relatives are, understandably, a mess-that is to say, even more dysfunctional than usual. One is eating compulsively to cope with the stress; Claudia's teenage daughter is hiding out in her bedroom; the paparazzi are hounding...

Mystery writer Lorinda Lucas doesn't like the trend toward overly gruesome crime fiction-but she's even more upset about Roscoe, the cat who lives next door. He used to look well-fed and well cared for, but when Lorinda gets back from her most recent book tour, she's worried by his dangerously skinny appearance. It turns out that Roscoe's owner has a new girlfriend who's put the poor cat on a deprivation diet-and that's not the only bad news in...

A millionaire's cat may be the key to a murder mystery in this delightful novel from an Agatha Award–winning author. When Annabel Hinchby-Smythe accepts an offer to serve as interior decorator to computer mogul Arthur Arbuthnot, she can't help noticing that no one in the house seems to genuinely like the tycoon-aside from his cat, Sally. After Arthur's sudden death-and the revelation that Sally is named sole inheritor in his will-Annabel's new...

With their fortunes dwindling, Reggie and his wife, Midge, have turned the family mansion into an English country inn. When Midge gets a call from an old classmate who arranges "mystery tours" for visiting Americans, she happily agrees to host one of these staged-murder events. But the tour seems to be a disaster from the get-go, with lots of arguing and complaining among those involved. Then, after a massive snowstorm, a real murder takes place-and...