The Cat in the Hatbox
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Last published Sun, Sep 11, 2016
When a resident of his retirement community dies, her niece doesn't agree that it was from a heart attack as the doctor said. She asks Ed Lazenby to look into it. sucking him and his best friend and neighbor, Ernie Cardoza, into one of the strangest cases imaginable. A neurotic cat, a missing will, and no clues - all in a day's work for these two.
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