Marian Babson

Dame Cecile Savoy's "revolting floor mop" of a Pekinese has passed away at a ripe old age. Now, the aging British actress convinces her rivals on stage and screen, Trixie and Evangeline, to support her in her hour of grief...by accompanying her to a taxidermist....

Mystery writer Lorinda Lucas tosses yet another paperback in the trash, appalled at the gruesome direction of today's crime fiction. She's even more disturbed at the half-starved state of Roscoe, the cat next door. Before Lorinda left for her book tour, Roscoe was plump and pampered....

Vanessa has been rushed to hospital, having been found unconscious at the foot of the stairs. Now, suffering from a head injury that has left her with amnesia about the fall, the events leading up to it, and the people closest to her, she seems to be back in their midst....

Reggie and Midge, genteel husband and wife who live in what was the family's more or less stately home, are now the reluctant managers of Chortlesby Manor Hotel, an English country inn....

Nashville's Bart and the Cousins, in England on a road trip, have a chart-topping song. Unfortunately, Bart also has an indictment back in the USA over an underage groupie....

A trip to London turns deadly...until a cat helps foil a nearly purrfect crime....

Old feuds are resurrected and new feuds are born as a town full of mystery writers begins to wonder....