ABANDONED. childrens book from the 70's (or before) that features a cat called Mercedes ?

[Mark]

I read this book in the 70's around the same time as bottersnikes and Gumbles was about, but before Fungus the Bogeyman.

The book included illustrations, the cat Mercedes was illustrated as tall and thin, and was black I think with a white belly, much like the "Le Chat Noir" posters.

There may have been a factory involved and a man with a moustache, I think that the charachters drove around in an old car, much like an old 1920's rolls royce. The story mught have been set in a desert like land. It was not a "realistic" novel, ie I think Mercedes could talk.

Cheers
Mark

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Picture book or chapter book?
Author's gender?

[Mark]

Hi, thanks,

It was a thin novel, with the occasional illustration embedded in the text, with around 100 pages or so I think. I do not remember the authors gender.

Cheers
Mark

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Still looking or did you find this?

[Rainbowheart]

If you are, might want to check this list....

Forget Meow! - Talking Cats in Fiction

[Kris]

No response, moving to Abandoned folder.

Mark (OP) last posted in the group in April 2019.