Purr-Fect Crime

by Martin H. Greenberg (Editor), Carol-Lynn Rössel Waugh (Editor)

Black Cat in the Snow, John D. MacDonald
Murder is a Gas, Allen Kim Lang
The Adventure of the Seven Black Cats, Ellery Queen
A Little Intelligence, Randall Garrett
The Invisible Cat, Betty Ren Wright
The Outside Ledge, L.T. Meade and Robert Eustace
The Theft of the Mafia cat, Edward D. Hoch
Mr. Strang and the Cat Lady, William Brittain
The Cyprian Cat, Dorothy L. Sayers
Animals, Clark Howard
The Yellow Cat, Wilbur Daniel Steele
The Black cat, Edgar Allan Poe
The Squaw, Bram Stoker
A Great Sight, Janwillem Van de Wetering

Genres: Mystery, Cats, Anthologies, Short Stories

271 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Martin Harry Greenberg was an American academic and speculative fiction anthologist. In all, he compiled 1,298 anthologies and commissioned over 8,200 original short stories. He founded Tekno Books, a packager of more than 2000 published books. In addition, he was a co-founder of the Sci-Fi Channel.

For the 1950s anthologist and publisher of Gnome Press, see Martin Greenberg.

Reviews

[Sheila Myers · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great book for those who enjoy mysteries, cats, or short stories by some of the best writers or any combination of those. My favorite in this collection is "The Squaw" by Bram Stoker.

[Karen GoatKeeper · Rating 2 out of 5]

If you want a book of cozy cat stories, this book is not it. Many of these stories have fantasy in them. Most are macabre. Two are disquieting social comments, one on a reason food stamp came into being, the other on the fight over animal testing.
All of the stories are well written. The stories themselves are engaging holding you to the end. They are in a genre I don't much enjoy but those who do would enjoy this book.

[Sally · Rating 1 out of 5]

Very disappointing - not one story in fact really had anything to do with cats! They just loosely referred to them occasionally which would be fine if the stories were actually good but they unfortunately are not.

[B. Barron · Rating 3 out of 5]

A really good anthology, if you like cats. Some of the stories have an extremely dubious cat link, but all in all it’s a fun read.

[Kaija · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some stories were alright... Others were ok. A few I skipped. I wouldn't recommend reading this though.

[Searska GreyRaven · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sped through most of this one. Some of the stories were good, but most were meh.