The Animal-Lover's Book of Beastly Murder, Paperback/Patricia Highsmith

Stories from "The Animal-Lover's Book of Beastly Murder" portray, with incisive humor, the murderously competitive desires of our most trusted companions. In this satirical reprise of Kafka, cats, dogs, and the occasional cockroach are no longer benign elements of a happy home but actually have the power to destroy it.