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From New York Times best-selling author P. J. Brackston comes the prequel to Gretel and the Case of the Missing Frog Prints. Gretel - yes, that Gretel - is currently 35, very large, still coping with her sibling, Hans, and working as a private investigator. The small, sleepy town of Gesternstadt is shaken to its attractive foundations when the workshop of the local cart manufacturer is burnt to the ground, and a is learned in the ashes. It is Gretel who notices that the cadaver is missing a finger. Initially she will not see this as significant, as her mind is fully focused on a new circumstance. Not that she doesn't want to research an intriguing murder, but her customer is happy to pay over the odds, so she must content herself with wanting to trace three missing cats. It isn't until she actually is further into her investigations that she realizes both occasions are inextricably and dangerously connected, and that the enigma of the missing cats will lead her into perilous situations and frightening company. Gretel soon confirms herself accused of kidnapping Princess Charlotte, locked up in the cells at the summertime Schloss, repelling the developments of the amorous troll, strapped to a rack in Herr Schmerz's torture chamber, and fleeing a murder demand. With dubious help from her sibling (whose scant wits are habitually addled by drink), she must verify her innocence, solve the puzzle of the unidentified corpse, and find the stolen cats before they meet a grisly end.
