From Poe's "The Black Cat" to the latest Lilian Jackson Braun Cat Who... book, felines have often been linked to the dark and mysterious, sometimes with some humor thrown in. Just like life with a real cat. Here are some classics, some contemporary mystery series, and others, all suitable for reading on a dark and stormy night with a cat curled up on your lap. Series titles are listed in order of publication.

I'll be adding more series and individual cat mysteries over time.

Classics

The Black Cat and Other Stories by Edgar Allan Poe

Short Story Collections

Cat Crimes I, II, III

Cat Crimes for the Holidays

Cat Crimes Takes a Vacation

Cat Crimes Through Time

Danger in D.C.: Cat Crimes in the Nation's Capital

Feline and Famous: Cat Crimes Goes Hollywood

Felonious Felines

Midnight Louie's Pet Detectives

Murder Most Feline

Purr-Fect Crime

A Treasury of Cat Mysteries

White House Pet Detectives: Tales of Crime and Mystery at the White House from a Pet's Eye View

Lydia Adamson

Alice Nestleton:

A Cat in the Manger

A Cat of a Different Color

A Cat in Wolf's Clothing

A Cat in the Wings

A Cat by Any Other Name

A Cat With a Fiddle

A Cat in a Glass House

A Cat With No Regrets

A Cat on the Cutting Edge

A Cat on a Winning Streak

A Cat in Fine Style

A Cat Under the Mistletoe

A Cat in a Chorus Line

A Cat on a Beach Blanket

A Cat on Jingle Bell Rock

A Cat On Stage Left

A Cat of One's Own

A Cat With the Blues

A Cat With No Clue

A Cat Named Brat

A Cat on the Bus

Garrison Allen

Big Mike (Some of these books are out of print and/or of limited availability):

Desert Cat

Royal Cat

Stable Cat

Baseball Cat

Dinosaur Cat

Movie Cat

Marian Babson

Pandora (Perkins & Tate):

Cover-Up Story

Murder at the Cat Show

Tourists are for Trapping

In the Teeth of Adversity

Non-series mysteries with feline characters:

Canapes for the Kitties

The Cat Next Door

The Company of Cats

The Diamond Cat

Nine Lives to Murder

Paws for Alarm

To Catch a Cat

Whiskers and Smoke

Please Do Feed the Cat

The Cat Who Wasn't a Dog

Lilian Jackson Braun

KoKo and Yum Yum:

The Cat Who Could Read Backwards

The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern

The Cat Who Turned on and Off

The Cat Who Saw Red

The Cat Who Played Brahms

The Cat Who Played Post Office

The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare

The Cat Who Sniffed Glue

The Cat Who Went Underground

The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts

The Cat Who Lived High

The Cat Who Knew a Cardinal

The Cat Who Moved a Mountain

The Cat Who Wasn't There

The Cat Who Went into the Closet

The Cat Who Came to Breakfast

The Cat Who Blew the Whistle

The Cat Who Said Cheese

The Cat Who Tailed a Thief

The Cat Who Sang for the Birds

The Cat Who Saw Stars

The Cat Who Robbed a Bank

The Cat Who Smelled a Rat

The Cat Who Went up the Creek

The Cat Who Brought Down the House

The Cat Who Talked Turkey

The Cat Who Went Bananas

And related Cat Who... items:

The Cat Who...Companion by Sharon A. Feaster

The Cat Who...Cookbook by Lilian Jackson Braun and others

Short & Tall Tales: Moose County Legends Collected by James Mackintosh Qwilleran by Lilian Jackson Braun

The Private Life of the Cat Who: Tales of Koko and Yum Yum from the Journals of James MacKintosh Qwilleran by Lilian Jackson Braun

Rita Mae Brown (and Sneaky Pie Brown)

Mrs. Murphy:

Wish You Were Here

Rest in Pieces

Murder at Monticello

Pay Dirt

Murder, She Meowed

Murder on the Prowl

Cat on the Scent

Pawing Through the Past

Claws and Effect

Catch As Cat Can

The Tail of the Tip-Off

Whisker of Evil

Cat's Eyewitness

Sour Puss

And related items:

Murder She Purred (a Mrs. Murphy video)

Sneaky Pie's Cookbook for Mystery Lovers

Carole Nelson Douglas

Before the main series, Midnight Louie appeared in a quartet of books whose paperback publication wasn't up to the author's standards. These books were reissued in 1999 with her approval and a few changes. They are mostly out of print now.

The Cat and the King of Clubs

The Cat and the Queen of Hearts

The Cat and the Jill of Diamonds

The Cat and the Jack of Spades

Midnight Louie:

Catnap

Pussyfoot

Cat on a Blue Monday

Cat in a Crimson Haze

Cat in a Diamond Dazzle

Cat With an Emerald Eye

Cat in a Flamingo Fedora

Cat in a Golden Garland

Cat on a Hyacinth Hunt

Cat in an Indigo Mood

Cat in a Jeweled Jumpsuit

Cat in a Kiwi Con

Cat in a Leopard Spot

Cat in a Midnight Choir

Cat in a Neon Nightmare

Cat in an Orange Twist

Cat in a Hot Pink Pursuit

Cat in a Quicksilver Caper (available June 2006)

And related items:

Midnight Louie's Pet Detectives (short story collection with works by other authors)

Paul Engleman

The Man With My Cat (one book of the non-cat Phil Mooney series)

Gordon and Mildred Gordon

Darn Cat (DC):

Undercover Cat

Undercover Cat Prowls Again

Catnapped! the Further Adventures of Undercover Cat

And related items:

That Darn Cat! (DVD: The 1967 Disney movie, with Hayley Mills and Dean Jones)

That Darn Cat (DVD: The 1997 version with Christina Ricci)

Evan Marshall

Winky:

Missing Marlene

Hanging Hannah

Stabbing Stephanie

Icing Ivy

Toasting Tina

Crushing Crystal

Alex Matthews

Starshine:

Secret's Shadow

Satan's Silence

Vendetta's Victim

Wanton's Web

Cat's Claw

Death's Domain

Wedding's Widow

Shirley Rousseau Murphy

Joe Grey:

Cat on the Edge

Cat Under Fire

Cat Raise the Dead

Cat in the Dark

Cat To The Dogs

Cat Spitting Mad

Cat Laughing Last

Cat Seeing Double

Cat Fear No Evil

Cat Cross Their Graves

Cat Breaking Free

Linda Stewart

Sam (children's books):

Sam The Cat: Detective

The Big Catnap

The Maltese Kitten

Mary Stolz

Eileen O'Kelly (children's book):

Casebook of a Private (Cat's) Eye

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