Cat in a Topaz Tango: A Midnight Louie Mystery (Midnight Louie Mysteries) by Douglas Carole Nelson

Author:Douglas, Carole Nelson [Douglas, Carole Nelson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780765318626
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Published: 2009-08-03T16:00:00+00:00

Forty minutes later, everyone was sitting on the carpet, dozens of cheap paper napkins unfolded, smearing a gloss of red pizza sauce over lipstick. A lot of chitchat and chatter had gone down with the pepperoni slices and melted cheese, but no clues that stood out.

Midnight Louie stole the show by darting out a black paw to snag yet another circle of sausage on the now-cold pizza remains. Everybody laughed. They hadn’t laughed earlier when he’d knocked a plastic shaker of red pepper flakes over on the carpet.

“If we don’t know what,” Mariah opined between chews on the best-tasting generic pizza in the world, because tension had everyone feeling starved, “how can we begin to know who?”

“Sounds like sound police procedure to me,” Molina put in, earning a glancing flash of gratitude from her daughter. “The police won’t know what until tomorrow morning. Tell you what. Since Ekaterina has no responsible adult present to look after her, Ms. Ozone and I will take her and her friend Mariah up to our suite, so you two mothers only have your own daughters to watch over.”

Two maternal brows frowned at the idea. “Separate the girls?” Angie objected. “They were just bonding.”

Mariah rolled her eyes, indicating the opposite, so Temple jumped in.

“It’ll be easier to alibi the kids if anyone gets carried away and starts tossing out accusations.”

A long silence indicated they all knew who might be slinging accusations around: Yvonne Smith.

“That’s very generous of Ms. Ozone,” Frances Peters said. “And it might be best for EK.” Her glance at the girl also indicated just who’d been the butt of Sou-Sou’s snobbery.

Molina nodded, well satisfied with the new arrangement in all of her identities: cop, mother, and undercover teen star flunky.

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