Baseball Cat — Garrison Allen

Famous for its yearly Elizabethan Festival and annual Arabian Horseshoe, Empty Creek, Arizona, would truly be nowhere without a visit from a semi-professional baseball team. Barely out of the dugout, trying to break a hot losing streak, the Coyotes are hoping to star in the minor leagues. But before the first note of the National Anthem is sung, somebody uses the owner's head for a baseball and scores a deadly hit.

STRANDED IN THE OUTFIELD
With the help of her Abyssinian cat "Big Mike," Penelope Warren sets out to solve the gruesome murder. Management squabbles, money troubles, marital mayhem, and an ex-major leaguer struggling to make a comeback don't make it easier to understand why the murder weapon bears a very small set of fingerprints; what the strange file found in the team office means; or whether the victim had been concealing a secret lover. With a team of suspects--enough to fill a ballpark--Penelope and Mycroft soon find themselves threatened by a clever killer ready to pick the whole game to get away with murder and steal home.