The Unscratchables

Animal Farm meets The Simpsons in this inventive twiston the hard-boiled detective novel featuring a world made up exclusively of cats dogs and one ruthless fox.... Bull terrier Crusher McNash is a no-nonsense homicide detective who eats out of  the can and only bathes when his boss orders  him  to.  He’s  just  been thrownaboneaboutagruesome case involving Rottweilers torn apart by a savage killer and the only lead he’s been able to sniff out is “an impression of movement” at the murder scene. Crusher suspects the killer is a cat and there’s nothing he hates more than “the whole cream-lapping wool-juggling pajama-wearing fence-sitting bird-torturing furball-coughing lot of them.” But he’ll have to start barking up a different tree if he wants help solving this case as his partner on this case is soymilk-drinking pressed-suit- wearing Cassius Lap an agent for the FBI (Feline Bureau of Investigation).. As this odd couple puts their paws together their investiga- tion takes them from the bow- els of the Kennel into the tony streets of Kathattan. Soon they begin to uncover a vast con- spiracy involving a cat who has been trained as a super-killer capable of growing in size and ferocity and killing any dog who gets in his way—and who may be working for a media baron fox. But they’ll need to unravel the conspiracy and quickly if they want to stop the next killing before it’s too late.. Witty and irresistibly entertaining this genre- bending mystery boldly mixes human and animal sensibilities in an entertaining satire of our cur- rent society.