Blood on the Cat

Name: Blood on the Cat
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ISBN: 9781804999394

Nancy Rutledge, Otto Penzler

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Penguin (Transworld)
06 October 2026

Classic crime; Fiction: special features; Cats as pets

A cosy murder mystery in which a cat helps solve the crime, this forgotten Golden Age classic is perfect for readers of the British Library Crime Classics series.

A cosy murder mystery in which a cat helps solve the crime, this is a forgotten Golden Age classic.

'Expert sleuthing' - The Saturday Review

Bennet Farr was the richest and most hated man in town, so when he is found dead, the list of those with a grudge grows endless. There's the librarian, the journalist, the schoolteacher, and Bennet's own son, who was struck off the family inheritance just days before Bennet's death.

How do catch a killer when everyone in town has a motive? The police are befuddled by the lack of evidence. And in the end, the key to solving the mystery is found not by them but by Bennet's pet cat, Smoky.

A lost classic worthy of rediscovery, this cosy mystery will delight any fan of Golden Age detective fiction.

By: Nancy Rutledge
Introduction by: Otto Penzler
Imprint: Penguin (Transworld)
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 200g
ISBN: 9781804999394
ISBN 10: 1804999393
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 06 October 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Nancy Rutledge (Author) Nancy Rutledge was born in Chicago and educated at Rockford College and Northwestern. Between 1944 and 1960, she authored ten works of crime fiction under her own name, two of them published only in England. She also had one mystery novel published as by Leigh Bryson, a Handi-Book paperback original in 1947. In the 1950s and '60s, she had eight mystery novels serialized in the Saturday Evening Post, and one that appeared complete in an issue of Redbook. Otto Penzler (Introducer) Otto Penzler owns The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City and founded the Mysterious Press and Otto Penzler Books. He has written and edited several books, including the Edgar Award-winning Encyclopaedia of Mystery and Detection, and is the series editor of the annual Best American Mystery Stories of the Year.