Series
Midnight Louie
Carole Nelson Douglas & Edgar Allan Poe · 35 novels · 3 short stories · 1990–2018
Midnight Louie follows an alley cat turned amateur detective in Las Vegas, whose feline instincts and knack for trouble intersect with his human companion Temple Barr's own investigations into murders around the city's casinos and nightlife. Carole Nelson Douglas' long-running mystery series, most entries titled with cat-and-color wordplay such as Cat in a Diamond Dazzle, follows both Louie and Temple across dozens of books.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
- The Cat and the Playing Cards(6 works)
Map
Midnight Louie at the centre, 2 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1990s16
- 2000s13
- 2010s9
Shape
35 novels · 3 short stories
2 authors · completed series
reads like:mystery & detectivemurder investigationnorth americacontemporaryfunnyadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 65% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book34 of 38 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Cat with an Emerald Eyedarkest
- Catnapbrightest
- Cat in a Yellow Spotlightcalmest
- Cat in a Quicksilver Capermost intense