Disclaimer: All reviews and opinions by Mr. Pinkerton should be taken with an ounce of catnip.
Miss Butterwith has been reading aloud to me this wonderful mystery by C.S. Poe which starts off with an antique dealer, Sebastian Snow, finding a heart under his floor boards. He finds this very odd. I have to agree. Though I admit to burying a few tidbits now and then under the kitchen rug to save for later, putting them under the floorboards seems a bit ridiculous. I did have a catnip mouse end up under the refrigerator and I needed to call on Inspector Appleby to help retrieve it.
Miss Butterwith is trying to tell me that I have strayed from the point, but I think not, for just as I had Inspector Appleby, Sebastian Snow meets Detective Calvin Winter and together they must solve a mystery that seems to follow the books of some creepy fellow named Edgar Allan Poe. I will even admit there were parts in this story where I needed to cover my ears with my paws in fright.
One very interesting bit in this book is that Sebastian is colorblind. He can not see any color. Many people believe that cats are color blind, but this is not true. We can see some color but it is sacrificed for the ability to see better at night, for that is when we hunt. I am wondering if Sebastian would make a good night hunter. Or even a cat. Perhaps I shall send him some catnip.
Miss Butterwith informs me that I have strayed again and perhaps I should end it here so she can read to me some of my favorite parts of The Mystery of Nevermore....
....and as she reads in her soft voice I nod off into the fluttering blackness of ravens' wings. And through the misty fog of my dreams appears a cat. A ginger cat. With freckles.
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