"Alice Nestleton - a professional actress whose day job is cat-sitting - has solved a dozen fiendishly feline-based crimes since her series began."--BOOK JACKET. "It is a few weeks before Christmas, and Alice has a new client, a lovely tortoiseshell cat named Roberta. But Roberta isn't always on her best behavior. Occasionally she turns into the kitty from hell, and one of Alice's tasks is to transport the fickle feline to her therapist. Dr. Wilma...

For years, a soup kitchen in New York received money from a donor. The year it fails to arrive sleuth Alice Nestleton discovers he was murdered and no one knows by whom. She decides to find out.