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Harry and Cat are steady customers at Gretchen's Kitchen, a shabby, pleasant restaurant where Cat can warm her scarred body by the woodstove and Harry can slump in a booth, drink Gretchen's four dollar a gallon wine, and contemplate the folly of his declining years. They're existential drifters, content to let life take the line of least resistance. So when Gretchen asks Harry to do her a favor and help her dying friend, Eva, he at first declines. But, he's cursed with an overactive curiosity and he visits Eva to see what there is to see. He learns that Eva's husband, Frank, was found dead ...

Four sisters. One dead. Precious jewels missing. Harry's friend Mildred ropes him into looking for a handful of precious jewels, which leads to him bonding with two curious cats while engaging in a bit of B&E, discovering a unique drug ring, digging up a grave in a raging snowstorm, and coping with a jealous Cat.

Jerome Prouty never had much of a life. Teased and harassed as a kid, suffering his mother's disapproval, he stumbled through life doing the best he could. Then one night he's the victim of a hit and run. The damage is profound, the pain endless. He spent his days dragging himself around town and being shunned. Realizing he may be dying he asks Harry to find his killer. Harry, like the others, shuns him. A day later Jerome is in an ICU. Driven by guilt and remorse, Harry, with Cat in tow, attempts to redeem himself by trying to find the hit and run driver. He enlists the help of Jerome's ...

A paster’s wife asks Brianna to look for her beloved mother, Bernice, who went missing three years ago. At first Brianna refuses. She has a plateful of talents but has no desire to be a detective. When it’s pointed out to her that she’s been at loose ends for a time and not doing anything of note except training with Titus, a street combat expert, and dancing the night away in speakeasies, she relents. The fact that Bernice disappeared when seeking information about something of high value also peaked Brianna’s interest. It’s 1931, the Depression is well underway, times are tough,...

Brady was once a big deal in the corporate world but lost it all when he exposed his ethical side, resulting in his being expelled and blacklisted his boss, Annika, a feared cyborg. Reduced to performing odd jobs, operating a pedal cab, and scavenging in the derelicts, he slogs through each day fortified by the occasional bottle of City Services Sparkling Red. One dreary day, Annika confronts him. She has a job. Despite the fact that the last time she hired him for an 'odd job,' a man's life was destroyed, he reluctantly takes it, money being the prime motivator. The job is to find the ...

Three years ago, Brady Charles was at the top of his game. Then he foolishly did 'The Right Thing,' and lost it all. Ostracized and blacklisted from the corporate world, he is reduced to doing odd jobs and operating an illegal pedal cab service catering to the residents of the outer districts. Brady is contemplating another day of idleness when Annika, the Meta human responsible for his downfall, seeks him out and offers him a temporary, 'odd job.' Someone has broken into her apartment and stolen several issues of her National Geographic collection, one of the few in existence, and she ...

To fortify himself for an afternoon of operating his taxi, Brady stops at a vending kiosk for a bottle of City Services Sparkling Red, a wine of seriously dubious vintage. As he passes an ice cream kiosk, he is startled to see a girl that is obviously the twin of Ferret, an acquaintance. The twin, along with several other girls, is being closely monitored by beefy matrons in PanNeural uniforms. PanNeural is the mega corporation dominating the brain enhancement industry, and as Brady well knows, does not tolerate interference in their affairs. After lengthy self-deliberation (and a liter of ...

Harry was responsible for Annie's son going to prison. Now, Annie is giving him a chance to redeem himself by solving her "Little puzzle." With Cat in tow, Harry's persistence leads him to dank cellars, musty attics, people of dubious character, and murder. Cat meets her nemesis in the form of Cee Cee Dorfman, an Amazon obsessed with black iron and armed with a tube of tuna flavored kitty toothpaste.

Harry discovers that a supposedly hundred and thirty-year-old skull in a diorama depicting an ancient grave sports a decidedly modern tooth. His curiosity aroused; he goes on the hunt for the true identity of the person in the diorama. When stumped, he reluctantly enlists the aid of Sophie, a 16-year-old Shakespeare quoting, grudge dressing information specialist. Their hunt leads to deception, murder and a lethal duel in the dark halls of an old library.

Harry wanders into Gretchen's Kitchen for lunch and ends up taking custody of Mulligan, a nine-year-old with adult sized problems. He soon finds out that Mulligan may be only nine, but she has a mind of her own, doesn't hesitate to express herself, often times offering her take on "You seriously old people." To solve Mulligan's problems, Harry searches for a missing cousin and his denim collection, has a deadly encounter with bad guys, and robs the town office building. Cat does battle with bad guys to protect her new buddy, despite her irritating habits, and like Mulligan, doesn't hesitate...

It’s 1931, tens of thousands have been evicted from their homes, breadlines are blocks long, shantytowns are everywhere, and over 200,000 children are homeless. Brianna Quinn, whose husband was killed in a board racing accident and now has her destitute in-laws, Edward and Francis, living with her, keeps the wolf from her door by being a part time cat burglar. When she learns that Edward’s brother, Brody, an accountant and courier for the private and secretive Whitter Bank, went missing while delivering 500 double eagles to a bank patron, she decides to find out what happened to him. ...

Helen Mudgett, 63, widowed, jobless, and bankrupt, is forced to move to Cooper's Paradise Hotel, a dilapidated pile of wood catering to indigent senior citizens who thought they could live their lives on the two hundred year plan. Within hours of her arrival she is set upon by Ethel Mae Tibbets, a beer swilling, handicapped resident, and her ward, Sarah Brewster, a ten year old refugee from a broken home. They want Helen to help Sarah search for a 1936 Packard Limousine that went missing twenty years ago, along with its owner, Sonny Zervas. Helen tells them that looking for the car is an ...

It’s February, it’s snowing, and Harry pedals a bicycle with a trailer hooked to it for Cat. So when he’s asked to help a family with a problem, he wiggles out of it. But the Goots, a hard working logging family, are an assertive lot, and they show up at his doorstep for a bit of verbal back and forth, resulting in Harry and Cat pedaling the snow covered roads of New Hampshire searching for Irwin and Faith Goot and $800,000 worth of missing watches. A receipt, an alcoholic surveyor, coconuts, and inflatable palm trees, provide hints, but Harry realizes it's all gone south when he's ...

Curiosity. Harry is cursed with it. And sometimes it leads to unforeseen events that have, in turn, unforeseen consequences. Curious about life in the fifties, Harry goes to the library, reads newspapers from that era, and chances upon a story about missing silver dollars. In the same paper is a small article about a missing man. Intrigued, but with nothing else to go on, Harry turns to other time killers. Later, while having coffee at Gretchen's, Dame Fortune smiles, leading Harry and Cat down a rabbit hole of greed, avarice, and murder.

Harry finds a sliver of bone in an old hatchet. His curiosity piqued, he and Cat stumble down a path leading to murder, anguish, and ruin.

Emma introduces Harry Neal, 63, ex-professor and existential dropout cursed with a trouble inducing curiosity. Harry's lazy day is interrupted when he is taken to a shallow grave in the woods. He finds an exquisite broach among the bones and bullet holes in the skull. Aided by dogged persistence and the occasional dollop of cheap wine, he follows a vague trail of clues going back twenty years. He questions an eclectic group of characters, pays $270,000 for a damaged, desperate cat, skulks about in the night like a neurotic burglar, is witness to human ruin, and strives to set things right.

In a chance conversation, Brianna, part time cat burglar striving to survive during the Depression, learns of a mysterious 18th century map hidden on a farm in New Hampshire. The farm is owned by Hannibal Jackson, a man of color, who was chased off it by the Ku Klux Klan. The map is cryptic, so Brianna arranges a meeting with Jackson at the Liberty Bell Diner, where she learns the cryptic lettering on the map refers to five thousand of something, perhaps something valuable. Brianna and Martha, a gun for hire, go to the farm to look for the map. They park in a nearby woods, sneak onto ...

1931. The Depression. Economic devastation. Breadlines, flophouses, shantytowns. Brianna Quinn, ex-board racer, adventuress, widow, locksmith, and part time cat burglar (“A gal’s gotta eat.”) specializing in box jobs. One fine evening, as she was in the library of T. William Stilton’s townhouse cracking the combination to his safe, the lights go on. She’s caught, but Stilton has a need for a safecracker, which results in her becoming aware of a hidden vault containing a priceless Medieval Book of Hours. The vault keys are missing. This leads to a hunt for a missing nephew and the ...

Slammed by fate and avarice, Olive Oglevee, (A.K.A. Double O) is reduced to living in A Thousand Joys, a rundown resident hotel squatting on a corner deep in the wrong end of Main Street. To supplement her Social Security, she cleans the hotel and is mentor, teacher, and deputy mother to Greta Garbo Katsunori, the ten year old daughter of Divine Mother (A.K.A. The Big Kahuna, First Rate Mother, etc.) the owner and benign despot of the hotel. Things take a tentative turn for the better when Olive inherits the Lincoln Letters, six letters Lincoln wrote to General Grant during the Civil War. ...