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    Cat and Mouse
    Cat and Mouse
    Cat and Mouse
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    Cat and Mouse

    By William Campbell Gault

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    To hit Brock where it hurts the most, a vengeful stranger targets the people he loves It starts with the dead cat. Ex-private investigator Brock Callahan finds the Siamese by his mailbox, its throat cut, and assumes it is a message from some crook he put away long ago. Soon a letter arrives—“The cat was first. Who is second?”—and Brock knows the threat is no joke. He hires his protégé, the ambitious young detective Corey Raleigh, to help him guard his wife and housekeeper, but Corey has troubles of his own. The kid detective is about to get an inside look at the workings of criminal justice. The cops find Corey not far from Brock’s house—half-conscious with a gun in his hand and a dead man at his feet. It’s an obvious frame-up, but to clear Corey’s name Brock will have to find the real killer, and lock him away before his wife meets the same fate as the unfortunate Siamese.

    Cat and Mouse is the 13th book in the Brock Callahan Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMysteriousPress.com Open Road
    Release dateSep 18, 2012
    ISBN9781453273388
    Cat and Mouse
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    William Campbell Gault

    William Campbell Gault (1910–1995) was a sports fiction author and Edgar Award–winning crime fiction author. Some of his notable works include Don't Cry for Me and the Shamus Award–winning title, The Cana Diversion from the Brock Callahan series. 

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    • 3/5
      Gault wrote a total of 14 Brock Callahan novels, a private eye designed to appeal to the reading masses. Callahan was a Rams football star permanently on hiatus due to a bad knee. His office was in posh Beverly Hills and he dated high-class interior designer Jan. Gault published the first half of the series between 1955 and 1963 (Murder in the Raw, Day of the Ram, Convertible Hearse, Come Die With Me, Vein of Violence, County Kill, & Dead Hero) and the rest two decades later from 1982 onward (Bad Samaritan, Cano Diversion, Death in Donegal Bay, Dead Seed, Chicano War, Cat and Mouse, & Dead Pigeon) .

      Cat and Mouse is one of the last of the Callahan novels. Here, Callahan is retired, finally married to his steady girl Jan, and living in a fancy estate up towards Santa Barbara. Although retired, Callahan is drawn back into the business by a series of cryptic threats.

      This is one of the lesser Brock Callahan stories and it never really seems to hang together plot-wise but rather proceeds in fits and starts. What was missing for me was the tension you find in good detective novels. You just never felt it here.

      You'll never go wrong picking up any of Gault's books, but this isn't one of my favorites.

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