Contents
Previously in Midnight Louie’s Lives and Times . . .
Chapter 1: Nervous Nuptials
Chapter 2: Louie Left Out
Chapter 3: House of Max
Chapter 4: Alpine Do-si-do
Chapter 5: Missing in Action
Chapter 6: Lost in Cyberspace
Chapter 7: Duty Call
Chapter 8: Police Premises
Chapter 9: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Chapter 10: Grilled Crawfish
Chapter 11: Wolverine Dreams
Chapter 12: Shotgun Reunion
Chapter 13: Car Chase
Chapter 14: Road Scholars
Chapter 15: Emerald City Express
Chapter 16: Text for Two
Chapter 17: Leaving Laughlin
Chapter 18: The Bus Fume Boogie Blues
Chapter 19: Unhappy Hoofer
Chapter 20: Dancing with Danger
Chapter 21: Celebrity Is the Cat’s Pajamas
Chapter 22: Pool Shark
Chapter 23: Shaken, Not Stirred
Chapter 24: En Sweet
Chapter 25: Everybody Undercover, Quick!
Chapter 26: Insecure Security
Chapter 27: Reinvention Waltz
Chapter 28: Precious Topaz
Chapter 29: Brothers, Where Art Thou?
Chapter 30: Undressed Rehearsal
Chapter 31: Hot Stuff
Chapter 32: Wardrobe Malfunction II
Chapter 33: Hotfooting It
Chapter 34: Mama’s Girls
Chapter 35: Purse Pussycat Prowl
Chapter 36: Red Hot Chili Peppers
Chapter 37: The Shoe Must Go On
Chapter 38: Mercedes Pasodoble
Chapter 39: Chef du Jour
Chapter 40: Rapid Recovery
Chapter 41: Too Dead to Dance?
Chapter 42: Pasodoble Double Cross
Chapter 43: Stomp ’Em If You Got ’Em
Chapter 44: Too Hot to Handle
Chapter 45: Postmortem on a Pasodoble
Chapter 46: A Perfect Barbie Doll
Chapter 47: Madness in His Method Dancing
Chapter 48: Paso de Deux
Chapter 49: Another Opening, Another Blow
Chapter 50: One-armed Bandit
Chapter 51: Crime Seen
Chapter 52: Rehearsed to Death
Chapter 53: Fighting Form
Chapter 54: Rest and Recreation
Chapter 55: Last Tango in Zurich
Chapter 56: On the Topaz Trail
Chapter 57: An Open and Shut Case
Chapter 58: Fenced In
Chapter 59: Terminal Tango
Chapter 60: Curtain Calls
Chapter 61: Dial M for Motive
Chapter 62: Topaz Tango
Chapter 63: Ciao Ciao Ciao
Chapter 64: For Her Eyes Only
Chapter 65: Cane Dance
Chapter 66: Dancing in the Dark
Chapter 67: No Good Dude Goes Unpunished
Tailpiece: Midnight Louie Mulls Many Matters
Carole Nelson Douglas Plays the Dance Card