Cat of the Century / Rita Mae Brown

Cat of the Century by Rita Mae Brown. 216 pp. The 18th Mrs. Murphy Mystery.

This is one of those mystery series with animals ("Mrs. Murphy" is a cat). In this particular entry the animals don't figure out the solution earlier than the people. Actually, as a mystery this is a particularly limp entry in the series. Most of the book is taken up with describing William Woods University and how wonderful it is, and having the characters all talk about how awful the government is and the world is going to the dogs and things were BETTER in the OLDEN DAYS. Now, two of the characters are 98 and 100 years old, so you can see why they might have that perspective, but even the 40-year-old characters all talk that way too. I guess the author is getting cranky in her old age.