Mystery and suspense

The Mysterious Half Cat

by Margaret Sutton

Book 9 of the Judy Bolton Mysteries series

215 pages · First published 1936

Judy Bolton encounters a strangely incomplete-looking cat whose appearance becomes connected to a mystery no one around her can explain satisfactorily. What begins as an odd animal sighting leads her toward people with reasons to conceal where the cat came from and what it may have witnessed. Judy’s sympathy for both animals and people keeps her investigating after others would dismiss the puzzle as trivial. Margaret Sutton uses the memorable half-cat clue for another community-centered mystery in which something that looks merely peculiar points toward a very human secret.