Shirley Rousseau Murphy (1928–2022)

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Om författaren

Fiction author Shirley Rousseau Murphy grew up in Long Beach, California and majored in fine and commercial art at the San Francisco Art Institute. She has worked as a commercial artist and has exhibited paintings and sculptures extensively on the West Coast. She has also been a designer and an visa mer interior designer, as well as in a library in the Panama Canal Zone. Murphy has written several children's books, plus the fantasy novel The Catswold Portal, the Dragonbards trilogy, and the popular Joe Grey mystery series, for which she has won eight Muse Medallion awards from the Cat Writers' Association. She and her husband live in Carmel, California. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre

Inkluderar namnen: Shirley Rousseau, Shirley R. Murphy, Shirley Rousseau Murphy, Shirley Rousseau Murphy, Shirley Pousseau Murphy, Sheirley Rousseau Murphy

Serier

Joe Grey

The Children of Ynell

Dragonbards

Lee Fontana Series

Verk av Shirley Rousseau Murphy

Populära Nyliga

Cat on the Edge (1996) 456 exemplar

The Catswold Portal (1992) 407 exemplar

Cat Under Fire (1996) 279 exemplar

Cat in the Dark (1999) 261 exemplar

Cat Raise the Dead (1997) 246 exemplar

Cat to the Dogs (2000) 245 exemplar

Cat Laughing Last (2002) 227 exemplar

Cat Breaking Free (2005) 214 exemplar

Cat Spitting Mad (2001) 212 exemplar

Cat Seeing Double (2003) 189 exemplar

Cat Fear No Evil (2004) 185 exemplar

Cat Cross Their Graves (2005) 181 exemplar

Cat Deck the Halls (2007) 174 exemplar

Cat Pay the Devil (2007) 168 exemplar

Cat Playing Cupid (2009) 146 exemplar

Cat Coming Home (2010) 119 exemplar

Cat Striking Back (2009) 119 exemplar

Cat Telling Tales (2011) 117 exemplar

Nightpool (1985) 112 exemplar

Cat Bearing Gifts (2012) 87 exemplar

The Ivory Lyre (1987) 84 exemplar

Cat Shout for Joy (1672) 82 exemplar

The Ring of Fire (1977) 70 exemplar

Wind Child (1973) 69 exemplar

The Wolf Bell (1979) 67 exemplar

The Dragonbards (1988) 66 exemplar

Silver Woven in My Hair (1977) 56 exemplar

The Castle of Hape (1980) 54 exemplar

Soonie and the Dragon (1979) 54 exemplar

The Cat, the Devil, the Last Escape (2015) 48 exemplar

Caves of Fire and Ice (1980) 48 exemplar

Cat Chase the Moon (2019) 46 exemplar

Cat Shining Bright (2017) 46 exemplar

Tattie's River Journey (1983) 45 exemplar

The Cat, the Devil, and Lee Fontana (2014) 43 exemplar

The Joining of the Stone (1981) 38 exemplar

Cat on the Money (2010) 34 exemplar

White Ghost Summer (1969) 33 exemplar

Valentine for a Dragon (1984) 29 exemplar

Christmas Cats (2005) 22 exemplar

The Song of the Christmas Mouse (1990) 15 exemplar

Elmo Doolan and the Search for the Golden Mouse (1970) 13 exemplar

The Flight of the Fox (1978) 12 exemplar

Poor Jenny, Bright as a Penny (1974) 11 exemplar

Medallion of the Black Hound (1989) 10 exemplar

The Sand Ponies (1967) 9 exemplar

Mrs. Tortino's Return to the Sun (1980) 8 exemplar

The Dragonbards Trilogy: Complete in One Volume (2016) 7 exemplar

The Grass Tower (1976) 6 exemplar

The Shattered Stone (2011) 5 exemplar

The Runestone of Eresu (2011) 4 exemplar

The Pig Who Could Conjure the Wind (1978) 4 exemplar

Carlos Charles (1971) 3 exemplar

Starhorn 1 exemplar

Cats Coss Their Graves 1 exemplar

Cat on the Edge (Joe Grey Mystery) by Murphy, Shirley Rousseau (May 1, 1998) Mass Market Paperback 1 exemplar

Cat Bearing Gifts 1 exemplar

Cat Coming Home 1 exemplar

Cat Pay the Devil 1 exemplar

Cat Playing Cupid 1 exemplar

Cat Shining Bright 1 exemplar

Cat Shout for Joy 1 exemplar

Cat Striking Back 1 exemplar

Cat Telling Tales 1 exemplar

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The Unicorn Treasury: Stories, Poems, and Unicorn Lore (1988) — Bidragsgivare — 257 exemplar

Motherhood Is Murder (2003) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor — 109 exemplar

Herds of Thunder, Manes of Gold (1989) — Bidragsgivare — 39 exemplar

Murder Most Feline: Cunning Tales of Cats and Crime (2001) — Bidragsgivare — 31 exemplar

Anywhere, Anywhen: Stories of Tomorrow (1976) — Bidragsgivare — 12 exemplar

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Födelsedag: 1928-05-20
Avled: 2022-09-23
Kön: female
Nationalitet: USA
Bostadsorter: Carmel, California, USA
Utbildning: San Francisco Art Institute
Yrken: author
painter

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Recensioner

Cat on the Edge av Shirley Rousseau Murphy

Joe Grey is a cat who has inexplicably found himself possessed of human-style intelligence and the capacity for human speech, although he doesn't like to do it in front of people. Then he witnesses a murder and has reason to believe someone is going to try to pin it on his human.

It's a really cute idea, but I have to say the execution just felt kind of... weird... to me. The author is prone to describing things, especially the cats, in this slightly over-done, almost flowery-feeling way that kept making me stop and wonder if it was meant to be some sort of self-parody. I don't think it was, though, which is kind of a shame, because I think this could have been really fun if it had leaned into the absurdity of its premise a little more and thrown in some humor.

It did still have an entertaining moment or two, and I like the author's spot-on observations about how normal cats communicate using body language, but mostly I think reading it just gave me lots of distracting thoughts of how I would have written everything in it differently.… (mer)

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