The Jade Green Cats

<p>Here's a story written in breezy journalese that has all the ingredients of a first-class thriller: crime mystery and love. Fresh and hot as front page stuff it travels swiftly keyed to the author's enthusiasm for the setting-her own town Chicago-her newspaper experience her own obvious passion for life its perpetual intrigue plot and counterplot.</p><p>The whole story comes to the reader through the eyes of reporter Kym and of Dawn Carson-sob-sister-in-chief to Chicago's most spectacular evening paper. A story in which are involved an Evanston professor and his highly decorative wife; the police of that snooty suburb; Chicago's Chief of Detectives; Annie Thompson-who raises delphiniums for a living; Karl Meisterburg wearing a fur-collared coat in August; Dawn and Kym falling in love. And all revolving around a mysterious pair of jade green cats. Like the Sphinx they will guard their secret to the end.</p><p><br></p><p><em>The Jade Green Cats</em> was published in 1931.</p><p>For more vintage detective fiction visit Coachwhip Books.</p>