Lydia Adamson: A Cat in the Wings (USA 2012)

From the Publisher:
Murder takes a bow at the ballet, and cat-sitting sleuth Alice Nestleton pirouettes into danger...
An actress led into a life of crime (sleuthing, that is) and cat-sitting, Alice Nestleton has returned to the theater -- dozing in a box seat through a Lincoln Center production of The Nutcracker. She's happily imagining her Main Coon cat, Bushy, and all-American alley cat, Pancho, doing the dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy when her reverie is interrupted by some off-stage excitement -- the discovery of former ballet great Peter Dobrynin dressed like a derelict and dead as a doornail.

And when the murder is pinned on her close friend, Lucia, Alice starts snooping for clues among New York's homeless to find the real killer. From flop houses to the elegant salons of wealthy art patrons, Alice is drawn into a dark, dangerous dance of deception... until a mysterious cat drags in the shocking solution to this pas de deux with death.

Lydia Adamson: A Cat in the Wings. An Alice Nestleton Mystery. InterMix / Penguin, ISBN: 9781101578896 (December, 2012), 0.78 MB (ca. 199 p.), $4.99.

Lydia Adamson: A Cat in the Wings (USA 1993)

From the Publisher:
Dobrynin, former ballet great, has been shot dead backstage at the Lincoln Center. When police pin the murder on Alice Nestleton's friend, Alice starts snooping for clues among New York's homeless. Can she find the real killer? It takes a mysterious cat to drag in the shocking solution.

Lydia Adamson: A Cat in the Wings. An Alice Nestleton Mystery. Signet, ISBN: 0451173368 (October, 1992), 203 p., $3.99.