About the Author
In addition to her popular Joe Grey mystery series for adults, for which she has received eleven national Cat Writers’ Association awards for best novel of the year, SHIRLEY ROUSSEAU MURPHY is a noted children’s book author who has received five Council of Authors and Journalists awards. Two of her children’s books were written in collaboration with her husband, Pat.
PAT J. J. MURPHY spent his career as a federal probation officer in California and Oregon, as well as the chief USPO in Panama and Georgia, where he retired as chief probation officer for the Northern District of Georgia.The Murphys later returned to their home in California, settling with their two lady cats on the central California coast.
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Also by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
Cat Bearing Gifts
Cat Telling Tales
Cat Coming Home
Cat Striking Back
Cat Playing Cupid
Cat Deck the Halls
Cat Pay the Devil
Cat Breaking Free
Cat Cross Their Graves
Cat Fear No Evil
Cat Seeing Double
Cat Laughing Last
Cat Spitting Mad
Cat to the Dogs
Cat in the Dark
Cat Raise the Dead
Cat Under Fire
Cat on the Edge
The Catsworld Portal
Credits
Cover design by Richard L. Aquan
Cover illustration and lettering by Ann Boyajian
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
THE CAT, THE DEVIL, AND LEE FONTANA. Copyright © 2014 by Shirley Rousseau Murphy. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
FIRST EDITION
ISBN 978-0-06-226878-5
EPUB Edition February 2014 ISBN 9780062268839
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