The Man with My Cat

by Paul Engleman

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031224651X
• ISBN13: 9780312246518
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

A roaring good time!

Phil Moony inherits two precious things from his father, a cat and a car. He desparately wants to ditch the cat, but as the story opens, every time he works up enough nerve to do so, he backs down. Finally, the cat is one step closer to being laid to rest, but it is stolen, and the vet chosen to do the dasterdly deed ends up dead instead. This is a charming, witty story filled with terrific dialogue, colorful characters and delightful mayhem. Fast reading. Wonderful writing and dialogue.Cris

A cleaver mystery.

THE MAN WITH MY CAT follows THE MAN WITH MY NAME as second in Paul Engleman's Phil Mooney series. Phil Mooney use to be a paramedic field officer with the Chicago Fire Department, but now it looks like he has taken up amateur sleuthing to fill his time. In this mystery, Phil has inherited his father's Maine coon feline named of Phull. I have to say, if I had a cat with as many nasty habits as Phil claims this one does, I would give it to my nearest enemy as a payback. Although Phil has been tempted to do far worse to Phull, he has talked himself out of it each time; the cat, like the car he now drives, belonged his late father. For putting up with the cat, his quick-witted wife Frankie says he should change his name from Phil to Phool. When Phil takes Phull to a vet, the cat is catnapped. With his bad habits, I would of said good riddance, and Phil is tempted to do the same, except that he loathes the person he suspects. Catnapping soon turns to politics, murder and mayhem. Paul Engleman's presentation of the seedy side of law and politics is very well done! He doesn't write too strong or too colorful in this subject as our most popular suspense authors do these days. He does get right to the heart of it and leaves no stone unturned. In Phil and Frankie's struggle to fight back I found myself, like many will, identifying with them and cheering them on. The characters in THE MAN WITH MY CAT are well defined and remarkable. The plot seemed to be well thought and took many imaginative directions.

Nick and Nora for the 21st century

Light-hearted and witty, Paul Engleman's "The Man with My Cat" features wisecracking duo, narrator Phil Mooney and his writer wife, Frankie. Phil, on the outs with the Chicago political machine (see his first Moony novel, "The Man With My Name") has some time on his hands and only one job to do - get rid of the cat, inherited from his father, whose spraying habits have doomed him to neutering at the very least.But someone steals his unwanted cat from the vet's office and then someone murders the vet. There's a lot of personality and politics before getting to this point and some slapstick and quick thinking in getting to the solution. The mystery is fun but the star attractions here are Phil and Frankie and Engleman's clever, sparkling writing.

An eccentrically off-beat but delightful mystery

Phil and Frankie Mooney do not want a cat, but his father's will forces the couple to accept Phull. However, the arrangement fails as the eight-year old tomcat sprays everything that does not move and then some. Neutering is out due to the age of the feline until their friend Pat Ryan introduces them to a vet willing to perform the surgery.When Phil arrives to bring Phull home from the vet, the receptionist informs him that a woman has already picked up the cat. Upset because the cat is missing, the Mooneys and Pat begin to search for the abducted feline. Instead of locating Phull, they find the murdered corpse of the vet. The police suspect Phil and Pat killed the victim. Their investigation has taken on an even more ominous demeanor because prison is imminent if they fail to uncover the identity of the culprit.Anyone who cares about cats will understand the dilemma facing the eccentric protagonists who do not want the feline, but are unable to let Phull go. THE MAN WITH MY CAT is a clever satirical mystery that guides readers through the sewage of Chicago politics. Paul Engleman has written a thought-provoking tongue-in-cheek mystery that will appeal for those who want to read about something outside the mainstream of the genre.Harriet Klausner