Perkins & Tate Mystery

London public relations firm Perkins & Tate has a potentially lucrative new client: the American country singer known as Black Bart. Unfortunately, the Nashville sensation comes with a reputation for chasing underage groupies-and an entourage that includes both his comedienne wife and her driven, controlling stage mother... who soon dies under highly suspicious circumstances. Now Douglas Perkins and his partner, Gerry Tate, need to put the best face on the chaos-but it's hard to focus on PR when you've got to play PI...

British public relations firm Perkins & Tate are used to dealing with show business-but this time, the celebrities are cats. The company's been hired to publicize a major event for cat fanciers, but even if the felines in attendance are dignified, elegant, and well trained, the same doesn't always hold true for the humans... After a valuable cat statue disappears-and the exhibit's much-disliked organizer is found dead in a cage with two Sumatran tigers-Douglas Perkins and Gerry Tate must sniff out a two-legged beast.

A group of tourists has arrived in London-shaken by the mysterious death of one of their fellow travelers back in Zurich. Larkin's Luxury Tours is represented by the public relations firm of Perkins & Tate-so it's up to Douglas Perkins, with a little assistance from his cat, Pandora, to soothe their fears, boost their spirits... and prevent them from demanding refunds.

Endicott Zayle is a dentist to the rich and famous-as well as to public relations partners Doug Perkins and Gerry Tate. Now, he desperately needs their help. It looks like his use of an experimental anesthetic has come back to bite him, and a beautiful model lies dead in his dentist's chair.