Published 2014 by Seventh Street Books®, an imprint of Prometheus Books
Cat on a Cold Tin Roof. Copyright © 2014 by Mike Resnick. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, digital, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or conveyed via the Internet or a website without prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Resnick, Michael D.
Cat on a cold tin roof : an Eli Paxton mystery / by Mike Resnick.
pages cm
ISBN 978-1-61614-889-8 (pbk.)
ISBN 978-1-61614-890-4 (ebook)
1. Private investigators—Ohio—Cincinnati—Fiction. 2. Murder—Investigation—Fiction. 3. Drug traffic—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3568.E698C38 2014
813'.54—dc23
2014006856
Printed in the United States of America