Raining Cat Sitters and Dogs

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

A THOMAS DUNNE BOOK FOR MINOTAUR BOOKS.

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RAINING CAT SITTERS AND DOGS. Copyright © 2009 by Blaize Clement. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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Grateful acknowledgment is given for permission to reprint the following:

“Nothing Twice” from View with a Grain of Sand, copyright © 1993 by Wisława Szymborska, English translation by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh © 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, reprinted by permission of the publisher.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Clement, Blaize.

Raining cat sitters and dogs : a Dixie Hemingway mystery / Blaize Clement.—1st ed.

p. cm.

“A Thomas Dunne Book.”

ISBN 978-0-312-36956-9

1. Hemingway, Dixie (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Women detectives—Florida—Fiction. 3. Pet sitting—Fiction. 4. Sarasota (Fla.)—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3603.L463R35 2010

813'.6—dc22

2009039814

First Edition: January 2010

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