ANIMAL ACQUAINTANCES OF MIDNIGHT LOUIE
in the series by Carole Nelson Douglas
It fascinates me that a cat can speak so many other animal languages. What a polyglot! I suppose this means he really could speak to humans also, but he prefers to stay mum; the model of discretion.
The Prequels | |
Chapter |
Cat and the King of Clubs |
| none in this book | |
Chapter |
Cat and the Queen of Hearts |
| 7 | Butch the Bowser, Midnight Louie says the Butch chased him under a fence |
| 18 | Mehitabel an alley cat, also mentioned in Catnap. |
Chapter |
Cat and the Jill of Diamonds |
| none in this book | |
Chapter |
Cat and the Jack of Spades |
| 3 | Yvette, Savannah Ashleigh's cat, see Pussyfoot, chpt. 8. |
The Series | |
Chapter |
Catnap |
Prologue |
Archy - a cockroach |
Prologue |
Mehitabel an alley cat (he must have known Mehitabel by association with Archy) |
Prologue |
Baker and Taylor, a pair of Scottish fold library cats |
13 |
Ingram - a snooty intellectual cat who lives in a local bookstore |
13 |
Sassafras - a former female cat friend of Louie's, mentioned in the short story, Maltese Double Cross |
Chapter |
Pussyfoot |
8 |
the divine Yvette, officially Diamond Bleu Moon Sirena Yvette, a pure bred shaded silver Persian at 6.8 lbs, owned by Savannah Ashleigh |
Chapter |
Cat on a Blue Monday |
6 |
Karma, Electra Lark's psychic birman, cream colored, white paws, dusky face, ears, and tail |
6 |
Moshe the mouser, Louie's friend at Beth Israel |
8 |
Maurice the spokescat for Yum Tum Tummy cat food, Louie actually meets him in Chpt 11 |
9 |
Peter - a big yellow cat that was nailed to Blandina's door in Chpt 13 - Louie gave blood that saved his life - the convent homebody |
9 |
Paul - a pale yellow fat cat - the convent roamer |
25 |
Caviar - black shorthair alley cat - Temple buy's her from the Humane Society - renamed Midnight Louise - probable daughter of Midnight Louie |
There were a lot of other cats in this story that didn't have names | |
Chapter |
Cat in a Crimson Haze |
27 |
dog at a dumpster - either a pit-bull shepherd mix or a Samoyed. In chpt 31 Louie says the dog from the dumpster is back, making me think it's the same dog, but it's a different breed. No name. |
31 |
Three O'Clock Louie - Midnight Louie's dad, at the Temple Bar restaurant on the north side of Lake Mead |
Chapter |
Cat in a Diamond Dazzle |
32 |
Midnight Louie talks with a hunting hawk to find a clue, no name |
Maurice, Midnight Louise, and Yvette are also in this story | |
Chapter |
Cat with an Emerald Eye |
| 40 | Kahlúa - a black panther - borrowed by Max for special effects |
| Karma, Ingram, Maurice and Three O'Clock Louie are also in this book | |
Chapter |
Cat in a Flamingo Fedora |
| 15 | Westie (Wescott) a terrier Louie meets in the lobby of the Goliath |
Chapter |
Cat in a Golden Garland |
| Prologue | Socks Clinton, the white house cat is claimed to be a personal buddy |
| 13 | The Sublime Solange, a shaded golden Persian, the Divine Yvette's sister, Solange is the Sun, Yvette the Moon |
| 40 | Matilda, the house cat at the Algonquin hotel, a gray and buff tabby |
Chapter |
Cat on a Hyacinth Hunt |
| 30 | Hyacinth, a lilac point Siamese, aka Shanghai Showblossom and Blood Orchid |
| 49 | Tabitha & Catarina, Mariah's kittens, brown tigers |
| Midnight Louise, Ingram, and Karma are also in this book | |
Chapter |
Cat in an Indigo Mood |
| 5 | Furbelow, aka Fanny, a long haired white cat with one yellow eye and one sky blue eye |
| 5 | Wilfrid, a tiger cat, rescued and nursed back to health my Midnight Louie and Midnight Louise |
| 21 | Nose E, a Maltese lap dog, dope and bomb sniffer, Midnight uses him to identify the murderer |
Chapter |
Cat in a Jeweled Jumpsuit |
| 19 | Chatter, a chimpanzee |
| 29 | Trojan, and eighteen foot anaconda snake |
| 33 | Rising Sun, a palomino horse (also Domino) |
| 33 | Honey, a French poodle (also Getlo, a chow) |
| Midnight Louise is also in the story | |
Chapter |
Cat in a Kiwi Con |
| 16 | Midnight Louie talks with some dyed-green Kiwi birds |
| 30 | Hyacinth is back |
Chapter |
Cat in a Leopard Spot |
| 24 | Golda and Groucho, a couple of Yorkshire terriers, used by Louie and Louise to track a murderer |
| 33 | Butch, aka Midnight, Ebony, Inkspot, and renamed at the end to Lucky, a black panther |
| 35 | Osiris, a leopard, stolen in the beginning of the story, but ML doesn't meet him until later. |
Chapter |
Cat in a Midnight Choir |
| 4 | Ma Barker, Midnight Louie's mom, (she calls him grasshopper) leader of a gang on the north side |
| 29 | a great Dane - unnamed dog, friend of Midnight Louise |
| Nose E., Midnight Louise, and Karma are also in this book | |
Chapter |
Neon Nightmare |
10, 43 |
Blue's Brother - blue parakeet, witnessed Vassar's fall |
37 |
Coyote with no name - Midnight Louie fights him to protect Midnight Louise |
|
Yvette is also in this story |
Chapter |
Orange Twist |
| 35 | prairie dog, unnamed |
SHORT STORIES | |
Sax and the Single Cat | |
Nose E. -4 lb dust mop dog drug sniffer | |
| Ingram, the bookstore cat | |
Cheetah Habanera -Havana brown cat | |
Socks -Bill Clinton's Daughter's cat black & white shorthair. Other first cats include FDR's Slippers, and Amy Carter's Siamese, Misty Malarky Ying Yang. | |
Kitty Kong -unseen big boss cat, the King of Cats | |
Midnight -Socks' sister in Arkansas | |
a strange tom - marmalade colored messenger from Kitty Kong | |
A Baker Street Irregular | |
| Absinthe and Malise, a couple of green snakes, all the animals in this story are staying with Sarah Bernhardt | |
| Otto, a boa constrictor | |
| Guillotine, a black panther | |
| Melange and Fifi, a couple of dogs | |
| Pocahontas, an opossum | |
Coyote Peyote | |
| Don Coyote, head honcho coyote, the American Indian legendary Trickster, Dirty Old Man, hires Louie to investigate coyote rders | |
| Fideaux, a small, blonde, yappy, fluffy dog | |
| Sings-with-soul (widow) and Yellow Foot-feathers (victim) | |
| Moonfinder (widow) and Sand Stalker (victim) | |
| Windswift (2 year old female) and Weatherworn (tribe elder), both coyote victims | |
| Happy Hocks, coyote youngster, works with ML, eats poison, but upchucks it later and survives | |
Maltese Double Cross | |
| Sassafras (mentioned in Catnap), Louie's secretary, sometimes nurse, gal Friday, and sometimes more, two toned autumn haze color | |
| Miss Wonder Leigh, smoke gray with long legs and blue eyes, also goes by Blanche White, and Babette Blue, has a sister Whimsy | |
| Manny the Manx, Louie's leg man and victim, and Iva Manx, Manny's widow, a white hot platinum blonde | |
| Thursday, Wonder Leigh's partner, another victim | |
| Spongecake, a Maine Coon cat, also called Fat Cat or Spongie | |
| Jewel Thebes, a black cat with with white feet | |
| Wilmar, a pet of Spongie's, turns out to be Whimsy or Wilma Leigh, Babette's sister in disguise | |
| Captain Jack, the pilot who flew in with the bird, another victim | |
| Sergeant Doghouse and Lieutenant Dandy ( a Scottie), the police | |
| the bird, a raven, crow, or mynah, no name, says "Nevermore". | |
Dog Collar | |
| Ritzi, a small french poodle owned by Mitzi Malone, a showgirl | |
| Bear, a white pit bull who works in the movies, helps rescue Louie and Ritzi in the desert. | |
Iä Iä Iä-Iä! Cthulouie! | |
| Yvette, Savannah Ashleigh's cat | |
The Mummy Case | |
| Heart of Night, the ancient "Midnight Louie" in Egypt | |
| Eye of Night, Hear of Nights mother, supposedly mummified | |
| Ampheris, counter of Royal Vermin, tells Heart of night about the mummy | |
| Kemfer, the jeweler's companion, described the mummy to Heart of Night |