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Shirley Rousseau Murphy (1928–2022)

Autor(a) de Cat on the Edge

64+ Works 5,288 Membros 87 Críticas 12 Favorited

About the Author

Fiction author Shirley Rousseau Murphy grew up in Long Beach, California and majored in fine and commercial art at the San Francisco Art Institute. She has worked as a commercial artist and has exhibited paintings and sculptures extensively on the West Coast. She has also been a designer and an mostrar mais interior designer, as well as in a library in the Panama Canal Zone. Murphy has written several children's books, plus the fantasy novel The Catswold Portal, the Dragonbards trilogy, and the popular Joe Grey mystery series, for which she has won eight Muse Medallion awards from the Cat Writers' Association. She and her husband live in Carmel, California. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

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Obras por Shirley Rousseau Murphy

Cat on the Edge (1996) 457 exemplares
The Catswold Portal (1992) 406 exemplares
Cat Under Fire (1996) 280 exemplares
Cat in the Dark (1999) 261 exemplares
Cat Raise the Dead (1997) 247 exemplares
Cat to the Dogs (2000) 246 exemplares
Cat Laughing Last (2002) 228 exemplares
Cat Breaking Free (2005) 214 exemplares
Cat Spitting Mad (2001) 213 exemplares
Cat Seeing Double (2003) 190 exemplares
Cat Fear No Evil (2004) 185 exemplares
Cat Cross Their Graves (2005) 181 exemplares
Cat Deck the Halls (2007) 174 exemplares
Cat Pay the Devil (2007) 167 exemplares
Cat Playing Cupid (2009) 146 exemplares
Cat Coming Home (2010) 119 exemplares
Cat Striking Back (2009) 119 exemplares
Cat Telling Tales (2011) 117 exemplares
Nightpool (1985) 110 exemplares
Cat Bearing Gifts (2012) 86 exemplares
The Ivory Lyre (1987) 84 exemplares
Cat Shout for Joy (1672) 82 exemplares
The Ring of Fire (1977) 68 exemplares
Wind Child (1973) 67 exemplares
The Dragonbards (1988) 66 exemplares
The Wolf Bell (1979) 65 exemplares
Silver Woven in My Hair (1977) 57 exemplares
Soonie and the Dragon (1979) 55 exemplares
The Castle of Hape (1980) 53 exemplares
Cat Chase the Moon (2019) 46 exemplares
Cat Shining Bright (2017) 46 exemplares
Caves of Fire and Ice (1980) 46 exemplares
Tattie's River Journey (1983) 45 exemplares
The Joining of the Stone (1981) 36 exemplares
Cat on the Money (2010) 34 exemplares
White Ghost Summer (1969) 33 exemplares
Valentine for a Dragon (1984) 28 exemplares
Christmas Cats (2005) 22 exemplares
The Song of the Christmas Mouse (1990) 14 exemplares
The Flight of the Fox (1978) 12 exemplares
Poor Jenny, Bright as a Penny (1974) 11 exemplares
Medallion of the Black Hound (1989) 10 exemplares
The Sand Ponies (1967) 9 exemplares
The Grass Tower (1976) 6 exemplares
The Shattered Stone (2011) 5 exemplares
The Runestone of Eresu (2011) 4 exemplares
Carlos Charles (1971) 3 exemplares
Starhorn 1 exemplar
Cat Bearing Gifts 1 exemplar
Cat Coming Home 1 exemplar
Cat Pay the Devil 1 exemplar
Cat Playing Cupid 1 exemplar
Cat Shining Bright 1 exemplar
Cat Shout for Joy 1 exemplar
Cat Striking Back 1 exemplar
Cat Telling Tales 1 exemplar

Associated Works

The Unicorn Treasury: Stories, Poems, and Unicorn Lore (1988) — Contribuidor — 254 exemplares
Motherhood Is Murder (2003) — Contribuidor, algumas edições109 exemplares
Herds of Thunder, Manes of Gold (1989) — Contribuidor — 38 exemplares
Murder Most Feline: Cunning Tales of Cats and Crime (2001) — Contribuidor — 31 exemplares
Anywhere, Anywhen: Stories of Tomorrow (1976) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1928-05-20
Data de falecimento
2022-09-23
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Locais de residência
Carmel, California, USA
Educação
San Francisco Art Institute
Ocupações
author
painter

Membros

Discussions

80's Dragon Rider Series - Not Pern em Name that Book (Julho 2009)

Críticas

Joe Grey is a cat who has inexplicably found himself possessed of human-style intelligence and the capacity for human speech, although he doesn't like to do it in front of people. Then he witnesses a murder and has reason to believe someone is going to try to pin it on his human.

It's a really cute idea, but I have to say the execution just felt kind of... weird... to me. The author is prone to describing things, especially the cats, in this slightly over-done, almost flowery-feeling way that kept making me stop and wonder if it was meant to be some sort of self-parody. I don't think it was, though, which is kind of a shame, because I think this could have been really fun if it had leaned into the absurdity of its premise a little more and thrown in some humor.

It did still have an entertaining moment or two, and I like the author's spot-on observations about how normal cats communicate using body language, but mostly I think reading it just gave me lots of distracting thoughts of how I would have written everything in it differently.
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bragan | 16 outras críticas | Jul 27, 2023 |
Very enjoyable. Melissa is very likeable character and Siddonie is a very bad baddie.
 
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GGmaSheila | 4 outras críticas | Feb 5, 2023 |
This is a wonderful series. Speaking cats that help to find clues and direct the police in finding evidence.
 
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bytheseabchcmbr | 3 outras críticas | Jan 17, 2023 |
In the spirit of Sneaky Pie Brown books, a fun read!!!
 
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LuanneCastle | 1 outra crítica | Mar 5, 2022 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
64
Also by
5
Membros
5,288
Popularidade
#4,709
Avaliação
3.9
Críticas
87
ISBN
290
Línguas
3
Marcado como favorito
12

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