In this latest entry in ShirleyRousseau Murphy's award-winning series, feline P.I. JoeGrey and his four-legged cohortsare plunged into a nightmarishmystery. On the way home from visiting their friend Kate Osborne, tortoiseshell Kit and her elderlyhousemates, Lucinda and PedricGreenlaw, are hurt in a terriblecar crash. The accident is terrifying enough, but then twodangerous men steal theGreenlaws' Town Car, makingoff with a secret hoard of jewelsand gold—a gift bestowed fromKate's newfound treasure. A badly shaken Kit hides fromhungry coyotes in the forestedhills above the highway,waiting for Joe, Pan, and theirhuman companions, Ryan andClyde Damen, to rescue her. Back home in Molena Point,yellow tomcat Misto,discovering a faded photographof a child living fifty years ago,becomes lost in his memories ofthat past century—while Joe Grey and his tabby lady prowlan abandoned stone cottagewhere they've discovered twomen hiding. The cats smellmildewed money and soonsmell human blood, too. Though the cats know more than thethieves about the unique itemsstolen, their investigation is stillin trouble as they claw theirway to justice.