Borrowed Crime: A Bookmobile Cat Mystery

by Laurie Cass

  “Oh, I am. He has that sparkle.” She held up her hands and used her fingers to make imaginary fireworks. “It’s hidden, but he has a hard kernel of personality that is bedrock and unchanging. A good director would draw that out of him in two rehearsals.”

  “So you’ve thought about this.”

  “I cast everyone I meet,” she said, sighing. “Occupational hazard.”

  “Even him?” I nodded in the direction of our furry friend. At this particular moment he was curling himself up onto the computer keyboard, and I made a mental note to vacuum it at the earliest opportunity.

  “Eddie is the levity that every drama needs,” she said. “The humor that allows the tragedy to be felt more deeply. The dose of reality in every fantasy.”

  I walked away before she could cover every type of play in existence. Eddie as everyman? Please.

  Eddie lifted his head an inch, met my gaze, and winked.

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