The Cat Wears a Noose Audiobook

A drunken man is shot dead on his doorstep in this classic mystery starring the "observant [and] appealing" (Publishers Weekly) seventy–year–old sleuth Rachel Murdock.

Miss Jennifer Murdock, walking home wearily from an evening spent poring over the books of the Parchly Heights Methodist Ladies' Aid searching for a fifty-eight-cent error, becomes witness to a terrible scene. A man, stumbling drunk, arrives home—and just as he fumbles with his keys, gunfire erupts and kills him on the spot.

Jennifer is determined not to tell her sister, Rachel, anything about it. After all, Rachel considers herself a sleuth or, as Jennifer views it, a busybody who pokes her nose in places it doesn't belong. What she doesn't know is Rachel has just had a visit from a member of that same household, a meek eighteen-year-old taken in after she was orphaned and treated like a servant. Young Shirley has been alarmed by a series of nasty pranks—and now she is heartbroken and even more frightened, after finding her pet bird dead.

There is something awful going on in the house on Chestnut Street, and neither her prim and proper sister nor Detective Lieutenant Stephen Mayhew can stop Rachel from finding out what it is.

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“A fun read from start to finish. Female amateur sleuths, a plot with multiple surprises, deftly crafted characters, and Hitchens’s flair for originality and the kind of narrative driven storytelling style that keeps her readers compulsive page turners."

— Midwest Book Review