The success of The Cat Who series has led to many other novels which combine animals and sleuthing. Two series ostensibly written by cats are the Midnight Louie series Catnap and Pussyfoot written by Carole Nelson Douglas, as well as Wish You Were Here and Rest in Pieces written by Sneaky Pie Brown (with the assistance of Rita Mae Brown), in which Mary Minor Hairsteen receives credit for unravelling cases actually solved by Mrs. Murphy (a gray tiger cat) and Tee Tucker (a Welsh Corgi). Cats also figure in Lydia Adamson's series involving cat sitter, Alice Nestleton. Dogs are represented in Susan Conant's mysteries solved by Holly Winter with the help of her malamutes, Rowdy and Kimi — also in Melissa Cleary's account of the adventures of college instructor Jackie Walsh and her German shepherd Jake. In the adventures of Kate Morgan's sleuth, Dewey James, horses...