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[from the back cover] "Sit, Heel--Murder! Veterinarian Deirdre "Didi" Quinn Nightingale has the birthday blues. It's her day, and it's been a disaster. First she's knee-deep in mud during a "bedside" visit to a stud pig. Then she's over her head in murder when she finds ninety-year-old Mary Hyndm... More

[from the back cover] "Dr. Deirdre "Didi" Nightingale is finding the dwindling dairy industry hard on her practice--and her pocketbook. Thinking that racehorses might be the winning ticket to more business, she heads to a vet conference in Atlantic City to find out. But when Didi finds a famous hor... More

[from the back cover] "Murder--in a pigs eye! A lovely little milk cow is terribly sick, and looking around the rundown dairy farm, Deirdre "Didi" Nightingale, D.V.M., isn't surprised. She is, however, shocked when her favorite vet-school professor, the elderly Hiram Bechtold, warns that she is a... More

[from the back cover] "Dr. Deirdre "Didi" Nightingale is finding the dwindling dairy industry hard on her practice--and her pocketbook. Thinking that racehorses might be the winning ticket to more business, she heads to a vet conference in Atlantic City to find out. But when Didi finds a famous hor... More

[from the back cover] "A SNAKE ON THE LOOSE? For a rural vet, business is sparse in midwinter months. So Dr. Deirdre "Didi" Nightingale leapt at the chance to earn a fat fee by appearing at a posh local fundraiser. Six mixed-breed bobcat kittens were to be auctioned off, and all Didi had to do was... More

Country vet Deirdre Nightingale knows a swine when she sees one--whether human or animal. But a trip to New York City to learn about the common cat turns deadly when she witnesses a nightclub owner being gunned down by a bicycle messenger. The NYPD is on the case, but soon Didi has gathered more c... More

from the back cover: Going to the dogs--for murder Deirdre "Didi" Quinn Nightingale needs to solve a baffling mystery to save her struggling veterinary practice in rural New York state. Bouncing her red Jeep along country roads, she is headed for the herd of beautiful, but suddenly very crazy, Fre... More

The twelfth and final book in the popular and long-running series finds Dr. Nightingale investigating the murder of her free-spirited friend, Rose -- and digging deep into Rose's apparent double-life. If anyone can sniff out the killer, it's Deirdre Nightingale. When Dr. Deirdre Nightingale's fre... More

On a high horse... for murder Intending to forget about her sick cats and ailing cows for one night, Deirdre "Didi" Nightingale, D.V.M., is all dressed up for a champagne-sipping pre-race gala at a posh thoroughbred farm. She never expects death to be on the guest list. But when two shots ring out,... More

[from the back cover] "MURDER AS HIGH AS AN ELEPHANT'S EYE... Excitement is making Deirdre "Didi" Nightingale, D.V.M., feel like a child again. There'll be no sick cows today. No clinic. No rounds. She is going to the circus. But shortly after she becomes veterinarian on call for a small traveling... More

Death Claws Veterinarian Deirdre "Didi" Nightingale is happily taking a break from her practice to join a research team tagging pregnant black bears in the northern Catskills. Awaiting her are the thrill of adventure, the fun of taking her friend Rose along--and murder. No sooner do she and Rose a... More

from the back cover "Barks, Blessings and Bullets Taking her sow, horse, and sorted yard dogs to be blessed at Lubin's Field is one of the highlights of the Easter holidays for Deirdre Nightingale, DVM. Didi is looking forward to meeting many of her clients on the procession and to making new frie... More

Acting jobs and cat-sitting assignments have been elusive for Alice Nestleton lately ... but there's plenty of sleuthing work to be done. A prominent theater director has requested her help for his pet charity: Sustenance House. It seems an anonymous benefactor has vanished (along with his much-need... More

[From the back cover:] "Alice Nestleton--actress, cat sitter, and amateur sleuth--is ringing in the holidays with a new client: a lovely tortoiseshell cat named Roberta. But sometimes this fickle feline turns into the kitty from hell, which is where Manhattan animal therapist Dr. Wilma Tedescu enter... More

[From the back cover:] "Alice Nestleton, once mockingly referred to as the Cat Woman by the local law enforcement, is finally getting everything she wants: a juicy role in a slick new TV series, a debonair leading man on camera and off, and enough money to give up cat-sitting for good. But when a si... More

[from the back cover:] "Alice Nestleton's acting career has a case of the no-nos--no auditions, no jobs, no money. Even her cat sitting work is dwindling, and to add injury to insult, her harum-scarum kitty, Pancho, turns into a cat from hell rather than enter his carrier for a nail-cutting trip to... More

[from inside flaps] "Alice Nestleton may be an acclaimed New York actress, but it's her performance as a cat-sitting sleuth that pays the bills. Now, in her seventeenth tantalizing adventure, Alice meets a striking-looking, unattached male. Enter Jake: Hostage. Escape artist. Eyewitness to murder. ... More

[From the Back Cover] "Take out order For Death Alice Nestleton, after years of off-, off-off-, and far-beyond-Broadway theater, sees stardom beckoning at last. Her agent has sent her to a trendy Tribeca Chinese eatery to land a movie part with an almost-major film producer. Instead, Alice is cat-... More

[from the back cover] "Everything's coming up roses for Off-Broadway actress Alice Nestleton when she lands a part in a major motion picture. With her two finicky felines and the three Abyssinians owned by producer Dorothy Dodd tagging along, she's ooh-lalaing her ban chance all the way to Provence... More

[From the back cover] "A FOWL DEED, INDEED At sixty-something, Lucy Wayles, feisty leader of the birding group called the Olmsted's Irregulars, can distinguish a hairy woodpecker from a yellow-bellied sapsucker. A rara avis herself, she can also tell a song and dance from the truth ... and recogni... More

[From the back cover:] Lucy Wayles, retired librarian and hawk-eyed leader of the Olmsted Irregulars, New York City's oddest bird-watchers, admires our fine feathered friends and sharply observes that humans often love unwisely, act unjustly, and end up murdered. Now a nasty homicide really has her... More

[from the back cover] "Alice Nestleton is putting on the dog: posing in elegant duds for a New York boutique's new ad. But she's surprised to find Bobbin, the clothes designer's once-beloved cat, exiled to the loft where the fashion shoot is taking place.. Dressed-to-kill Alice stumbles across a co... More

[from the back cover] "Out-of-work actress Alice Nestleton is willing to go as far as Atlantic City for a gig. Relaxing in a fabulous suite, she is startled by a slinky cat crawling up to her sixteenth-floor window. Alice's quest for its owner takes her to the nasty scene of Adele Houghton slashed ... More

[from the back cover] "Alice Nestleton is cat-sitting a beautiful Russian Blue--who also happens to be the center of a raging custody battle. Sidney and Beatrice Woburn are fighting over Frenchy, and just about everything else...so Alice, at the request of the lawyers, is keeping the cat company in... More

[From the back cover:] "A Paws De Deux--And Murder The only things Alice Nestleton likes about Peter Nelson Krispus, the cantankerous old man whose off-beat musicals made him a cult figure, are his two Silver Tabby Maine Coon cats. And the felines are about to join Alice in being cat's-eye witness... More