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Midnight Louie #6
Cat with an Emerald Eye
Midnight Louie, the rough-and-tumble black tomcat, and Temple Barr, his redheaded human companion, are up to their ears in intigue with a murder at a seance. Can spirits kill? Louie doesn't think so, but he'll have to do battle with powerful magicians both tangible and ethereal to prove it.
384 pages, Hardcover
First published November 15, 1997
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Carole Nelson Douglas
153Ìýbooks562ÌýfollowersCarole Nelson Douglas is the author of sixty-four award-winning novels in contemporary and historical mystery/suspense and romance, high and urban fantasy and science fiction genres. She is best known for two popular mystery series, the Irene Adler Sherlockian historical suspense series (she was the first woman to spin-off a series from the Holmes stories) and the multi-award-winning alphabetically titled Midnight Louie contemporary mystery series. From Cat in an Alphabet Soup #1 to Cat in an Alphabet Endgame #28.
Delilah Street, PI (Paranormal Investigator), headlines Carole's noir Urban Fantasy series: Dancing With Werewolves, Brimstone Kiss, Vampire Sunrise, Silver Zombie, and Virtual Virgin. Now Delilah has moved from her paranormal Vegas to Midnight Louie, feline PI's "Slightly surreal" Vegas to solve crimes in the first book of the new Cafe Noir series, Absinthe Without Leave. Next in 2020, Brandi Alexander on the Rocks.
Once Upon a Midnight Noir is out in eBook and trade paperback versions. This author-designed and illustrated collection of three mystery stories with a paranormal twist and a touch of romance features two award-winning stories featuring Midnight Louie, feline PI and Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator in a supernatural-run Las Vegas. A third story completes the last unfinished story fragment of Edgar Allan Poe, as a Midnight Louie Past Life adventure set in 1790 Norland on a isolated island lighthouse. Louie is a soldier of fortune, a la Puss in Boots.
Next out are Midnight Louie's Cat in an Alphabet Endgame in hardcover, trade paperback and eBook Aug. 23, 2016.
All the Irene Adler novels, the first to feature a woman from the Sherlock Holmes Canon as a crime solver, are now available in eBook.
Carole was a college theater and English literature major. She was accepted for grad school in Theater at the University of Minnesota and Northwestern University, and could have worked as an editorial assistant at Vogue magazine (a la The Devil Wears Prada) but wanted a job closer to home. She worked as a newspaper reporter and then editor in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. During her time there, she discovered a long, expensive classified advertisement offering a black cat named Midnight Louey to the "right" home for one dollar and wrote a feature story on the plucky survival artist, putting it into the cat's point of view. The cat found a country home, but its name was revived for her feline PI mystery series many years later. Some of the Midnight Louie series entries include the dedication "For the real and original Midnight Louie. Nine lives were not enough." Midnight Louie has now had 32 novelistic lives and features in several short stories as well.
Hollywood and Broadway director, playwright, screenwriter and novelist Garson Kanin took Carole's first novel to his publisher on the basis of an interview/article she'd done with him five years earlier. "My friend Phil Silvers," he wrote, "would say he'd never won an interview yet, but he had never had the luck of you."
Carole is a "literary chameleon" who's had novels published in many genres, and often mixes such genre elements as mystery and suspense, fantasy and science fiction, romance with mainstream issues, especially the roles of women.
Delilah Street, PI (Paranormal Investigator), headlines Carole's noir Urban Fantasy series: Dancing With Werewolves, Brimstone Kiss, Vampire Sunrise, Silver Zombie, and Virtual Virgin. Now Delilah has moved from her paranormal Vegas to Midnight Louie, feline PI's "Slightly surreal" Vegas to solve crimes in the first book of the new Cafe Noir series, Absinthe Without Leave. Next in 2020, Brandi Alexander on the Rocks.
Once Upon a Midnight Noir is out in eBook and trade paperback versions. This author-designed and illustrated collection of three mystery stories with a paranormal twist and a touch of romance features two award-winning stories featuring Midnight Louie, feline PI and Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator in a supernatural-run Las Vegas. A third story completes the last unfinished story fragment of Edgar Allan Poe, as a Midnight Louie Past Life adventure set in 1790 Norland on a isolated island lighthouse. Louie is a soldier of fortune, a la Puss in Boots.
Next out are Midnight Louie's Cat in an Alphabet Endgame in hardcover, trade paperback and eBook Aug. 23, 2016.
All the Irene Adler novels, the first to feature a woman from the Sherlock Holmes Canon as a crime solver, are now available in eBook.
Carole was a college theater and English literature major. She was accepted for grad school in Theater at the University of Minnesota and Northwestern University, and could have worked as an editorial assistant at Vogue magazine (a la The Devil Wears Prada) but wanted a job closer to home. She worked as a newspaper reporter and then editor in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. During her time there, she discovered a long, expensive classified advertisement offering a black cat named Midnight Louey to the "right" home for one dollar and wrote a feature story on the plucky survival artist, putting it into the cat's point of view. The cat found a country home, but its name was revived for her feline PI mystery series many years later. Some of the Midnight Louie series entries include the dedication "For the real and original Midnight Louie. Nine lives were not enough." Midnight Louie has now had 32 novelistic lives and features in several short stories as well.
Hollywood and Broadway director, playwright, screenwriter and novelist Garson Kanin took Carole's first novel to his publisher on the basis of an interview/article she'd done with him five years earlier. "My friend Phil Silvers," he wrote, "would say he'd never won an interview yet, but he had never had the luck of you."
Carole is a "literary chameleon" who's had novels published in many genres, and often mixes such genre elements as mystery and suspense, fantasy and science fiction, romance with mainstream issues, especially the roles of women.
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December 8, 2023
I have been solidly Team Matt (I almost always prefer the Beta over the Alpha), and this book is heavy on Max, so it wasn’t my favorite. Matt barely gets any page time. Lieutenant Molina is also virtually absent.
On the other hand Orson Welles has a supporting role, and I’ve always been a fan, so that was a plus. Interestingly, the Paul Masson wine commercials come up in this book.
The main theme of this one is spiritualism and mediums, also not of much interest to me personally. I’m absolutely a cynic regarding such phenomena; I believe when you’re dead, you’re dead. (As a Christian, though, I do believe in the existence of souls and the resurrection of the body, etc. I just don’t believe souls hang around the living and I don’t believe the dead can speak to or through the living.)
As always, the Midnight Louie narrations are the best parts of the book.
On the other hand Orson Welles has a supporting role, and I’ve always been a fan, so that was a plus. Interestingly, the Paul Masson wine commercials come up in this book.
The main theme of this one is spiritualism and mediums, also not of much interest to me personally. I’m absolutely a cynic regarding such phenomena; I believe when you’re dead, you’re dead. (As a Christian, though, I do believe in the existence of souls and the resurrection of the body, etc. I just don’t believe souls hang around the living and I don’t believe the dead can speak to or through the living.)
As always, the Midnight Louie narrations are the best parts of the book.
October 31, 2023
got really boring when midnight louie the cat wasn’t narrating
October 30, 2016
I'm giving only 3 stars because of a glaring error the author wrote into the climax of the book : Orson Welles is a major feature of this mystery and the 2nd to last chapter mentions Welles' famous "War of the Worlds" broadcast which was on October 30, 1938. This broadcast is so well known that finding facts about it would have been no trouble at all for the author. But, she gets the date for Welles' broadcast wrong and claims it happened in 1939.
Cat With An Emerald Eye had a good mystery idea, interesting characters and locations but suffered from a lot of padding, using words in the wrong context and a few messed up facts.
I think you might still like it, give it a try. Ignore the things I pointed out and just have fun with it.
Cat With An Emerald Eye had a good mystery idea, interesting characters and locations but suffered from a lot of padding, using words in the wrong context and a few messed up facts.
I think you might still like it, give it a try. Ignore the things I pointed out and just have fun with it.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 28, 2010
Definitely not my favorite Louie book. It took me forever to read it, unlike the others that I finished in a day or two.
August 9, 2022
I think I’d actually give this a 2.5. There was an overload of assorted famous magicians and mystiques, with the added dollop of Egyptian gods, Bast. There’s also a ton of the mysterious ex, Max.
Temple is asked to assist with advertising a séance focused mob calling up Houdini. Naturally, it’s at Halloween, so she has tried to pen Midnight Louie inside for his own protection. However, the rather spooky Birman cat upstairs is insisting that Louie needs to be involved in the seance. Assorted spirits, supposedly faded and otherwise, appear: Houdini, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Amelia Earhart, Elvis�.and someone at the stance ends up dead. Oh, yeah: the somewhat logical make friend, Matt, is relatable certain that he just spotted his evil stepfather strolling down the street in Las Vegas.
Lots of folks chasing ghosts and memories.
Temple is asked to assist with advertising a séance focused mob calling up Houdini. Naturally, it’s at Halloween, so she has tried to pen Midnight Louie inside for his own protection. However, the rather spooky Birman cat upstairs is insisting that Louie needs to be involved in the seance. Assorted spirits, supposedly faded and otherwise, appear: Houdini, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Amelia Earhart, Elvis�.and someone at the stance ends up dead. Oh, yeah: the somewhat logical make friend, Matt, is relatable certain that he just spotted his evil stepfather strolling down the street in Las Vegas.
Lots of folks chasing ghosts and memories.
August 12, 2017
This story involves seances, Max, Gandolph the magician posing as a famous seer, and of course, Temple Barr, Matt Devine, and, of course, Midnight Louie.
Attempts are made to reach Harry Houdini on the "other side".
One of the 9 handsome Fontana brothers (the most legit, Nick, who with his wife owns the Crystal Phoenix) seem to come to Temple's rescue when she most needs it.
This story has many twists and turns as it spirals towards its ending.
Attempts are made to reach Harry Houdini on the "other side".
One of the 9 handsome Fontana brothers (the most legit, Nick, who with his wife owns the Crystal Phoenix) seem to come to Temple's rescue when she most needs it.
This story has many twists and turns as it spirals towards its ending.
January 27, 2019
Just when this series seems to get a little bogged down with ridiculousness (it takes place in Vegas, how can it not) the multiple plot lines take a turn into depth and substance. Quite well done!
January 22, 2024
Great book
What is not to like about this book. Midnight louie is the ultimate furry Sherlock Holmes! The series is a hit .
What is not to like about this book. Midnight louie is the ultimate furry Sherlock Holmes! The series is a hit .
September 19, 2009
It took me slightly longer than usual to finish this one, because the kids kept interrupting. I liked the story and I like how each book delves more deeply into the characters and their relationships. I'm not sure I actually like Temple, as her height Napolean complex is a bit off putting, although realistic. The two men she is involved with are interesting- the magician, the Mystifying Max who I favor and the ex-priest, Matt who personally would have too much baggage for me. Each book is another soap opera installment...and this is without even mentioning Louie and his cast of cat friends!
July 4, 2012
Once again Temple has gotten herself mixed up with the seedy side of sim city. Her landlady is trying to contact the spirit of Houdini, a dead body shows up but is not Harry Houdini, of course, and Midnight Louie is back on the case to save his human from tripping over her brand new expensive shoe habit!
March 11, 2013
I have to be honest - I couldn't bring my self to finish this book, so my review is only of what I read. I love cat-mysteries, and have read all of the "Cat Who" series, and was looking for another. This is the first book I picked up in this series. I found the mysticism theme off-putting, and didn't find the people or cat characters convincing.
January 22, 2016
Number 5 in the Midnight Louise cat as detective mystery series, this was a great read. I eventually got tired of them and gave them to the library, but I read seven of them. They are a very good read for those who like their animals sentient and able to solve crimes. Midnight Louise is still going strong. Ms. Douglas has several other excellent series as well.
September 28, 2011
I had a little bit of a hard time getting into this one for some reason, but once I did, I enjoyed it, though not as much as the others of the series. This is not to say that I won't reread it at some point, as I am sure I will.
I did quite like Louie's description of the first seance.
I did quite like Louie's description of the first seance.
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March 31, 2011
good plor advancing series character relationshipw
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