A cat becoming an integral part of a murder investigation? In Professor Bradley Davison’s long association as a credentialed adviser to the NYPD, he had experienced many strange things. None, however, was odder than his new pet cat Pepper being the one to discover a crucial piece of evidence that would help solve a series of brutal serial killings. An elderly woman has disinherited her ungrateful children from her vast fortune, instead leaving it to take care of her thirty-six cats and to provide funding for many national and international animal organizations. The same night that she informed her children of her decision, she is murdered. Now, all six of them become suspects in her homicide. But one by one, they too are murdered. This leaves Chief Mag Goldman, Commander of the Homicide Division, and his ‘flying squad’ of crack detectives searching for motives, means and opportunities which could explain not only the mother’s murder, but the siblings as well. Enter Pepper the Cat—Brad and Libby Davison’s new ‘child,’ one of the cats rescued from the home of the murdered Margaret Cole. After staking claim to ownership of the Davison home, she becomes the central figure in discovering a clue which previously evaded Mag’s crack homicide squad. In this, the twenty-seventh Bradley Davison Mystery, he is faced with one of the greatest mysteries of his career. And it will take a gray tabby to help solve it.