Lydia Adamson: A Cat Named Brat (USA 2002)

From the Publisher:
Hired to house-sit for Brat, the hyperactive cat belonging to New York guidebook author Louis Montag while his owner tries to work, actress/sleuth Alice Nestleton is stunned when, on her first day, she is attacked, her employer is murdered, and Brat vanishes, and drafts some of her colorful associates to uncover the truth about the case.

Lydia Adamson: A Cat Named Brat. Signet, ISBN: 0451206649 (July, 2002), 199 p., $5.99.