All Creatures Dark and Dangerous : The Dr. David Westbrook Stories

by Doug Allyn

Series: Dr. David Westbrook (short stories)

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Dr. David Westbrook, a small-town veterinarian, has a one-eyed, three-legged cat named Franken Kat, whom he found by the roadside and patched together. In seven carefully crafted tales, David finds that his ministrations to cats, dogs, horses and other four-legged creatures lead him to dark and dangerous side of more complicated creatures -- the two-legged kind.… (more)

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dr. westbrook (married his rich wife under false pretenses, people in town think he just married her for her money; great vet, poor rather, but loves animals - rescues and treats gratis (pit bull found on side of road leads him back into woods to confront attackers and dogfighting ring humans; frankencat etc) (

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Dr. David Westbrook, a small-town veterinarian, has a one-eyed, three-legged cat named Franken Kat, whom he found by the roadside and patched together. In seven carefully crafted tales, David finds that his ministrations to cats, dogs, horses and other four-legged creatures lead him to dark and dangerous side of more complicated creatures -- the two-legged kind.

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CONTENTS:
Franken Kat
Roadkill
Animal Rites
Puppyland [first appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, September/October 1996]
Beaches of Paraguay
Cedar Savage
Crippen, Landru, and Carlos Palomino

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