Lydia Adamson: A Cat in the Manger (USA 2012)

From the Publisher:
This Christmas, in the newest Alice Nestleton Mystery, Alice will discover that cat-sitting can be murder...
Off-Off Broadway actress-turned-sleuth Alice Nestleton is just crazy about cats, particularly her Maine coon cat Bushy and zany alleycat Pancho. Now she's hoping for a merry little Christmas peacefully cat-sitting at a sprawling Long Island estate, where she expects to be greeted by eight howling Himalayans.

Instead, she finds herself face to bloody face with a grisly corpse. Alice has unwittingly stepped into a deadly conspiracy of high-stakes horse racing, sinister seduction, and missing cash. She knows she'd better count on her cat's clever instincts and nine lives, since her own curiosity has landed her just a whisker away from death...

Lydia Adamson: A Cat in the Manger. An Alice Nestleton Mystery. InterMix / Penguin, ISBN: 9781101599259 (November, 2012), eBook, 0.76 MB (ca. 153 p.), $4.99.

Lydia Adamson: A Cat in the Manger (USA 1990)

From the Publisher:
When Alice Nestleton, actress and sleuth, goes to a friend's Long Island estate to cat-sit, she comes face to bloody face with a corpse. Unwittingly, Alice has stepped into a deadly conspiracy plot of high-stakes horse-racing and seduction. Her curiosity might land her a whisker away from death!

Lydia Adamson: A Cat in the Manger. An Alice Nestleton Mystery. Signet, ISBN: 0451167872 (October, 1990), 208 p., $3.95.