Cat On The Scent

CAT ON THE SCENT

A Bantam Book

PUBLISHING HISTORY

Bantam hardcover edition published March 1999

Bantam mass market edition / April 2000

Bantam mass market reissue / April 2004

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Bantam Dell

A Division of Random House, Inc.

New York, New York

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Copyright © 1999 by American Artists, Inc.

Illustrations copyright © 1999 by Itoko Maeno

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 98-38104

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Published simultaneously in Canada

eISBN: 978-0-553-89867-5

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