When Temple Barr, five-feet-zero of feisty redhead, goes inhot pursuit of a stray black catstreaking through a publishingconvention exhibit hall, shestumbles over a big-time NY editor lying dead. While Templeand Midnight Louie are on thecase, the famous publishingmascots, a pair of Scottish Foldlibrary cats named Baker andTaylor, are kidnapped for ransom. The pair must sniff outa murderer before Murder bythe Book describes their fates.