When it comes to murder this sleuth isn't pussyfootin' around...Veterinarian and amateur sleuth Jessica Popper takes center stage in the cast of an up-and-coming Long Island playwrights last productionand the fur flies as Jess finds the theater world littered with clues to Simon Wainwrights murder. Was the killer the actress whos a real glamour-puss? Or her rival for Simons affections, a disheveled costume designer who looks like something the cat dragged in? Or how about the fat-cat Broadway producers? Jessies no scaredy-cat when shes on the prowl, but she loses her cool when her future in-laws and their monstrous Maltese descend on the tiny cottage she shares with fianc Nick Burby, Lou the one-eyed Dalmatian, rambunctious Westie Max, and the rest of her menagerie. Between coping with the Invasion of the Burbarians and playing cat and mouse with a killer, Jess could use nine lives herself. But curiosity killed the catwill that be Jessies fate by the time the curtain falls?From the Paperback edition.