Dulcie Schwartz feline-filled mysteries

Grad student Dulcie is having an awful summer. She's had to put her beloved cat Mr Grey to sleep; she can't decide on a thesis topic; her best friend has gone away leaving her with Tim, a boorish business school jerk. Until she find Tim dead, stabbed with Dulcie's own knife. Well, the ghost of Mr Grey did warn her...

When a student goes missing and a professor ends up dead, Dulcie Schwartz realizes that midterms are going to be worse than ever. She's hard at work on her thesis, but present day concerns, including the destructive mischief of her growing kitten, keep dragging her back into a tangle of motive, misbehavior, and maybe even murder. If only Mr Grey, her beloved feline ghost, would lend a hand, at least with that rambunctious kitten

When Dulcie stumbles across the dead body of her rival Melinda Sloane Harquist, she has to work overtime to prove her innocence and salvage what's left of her academic career.

"A prestigious literature event is convening in Cambridge and Dulcie Schwartz is the university liaison. But a strange apparition is haunting the conference - and even Mr Gray, ghost of Dulcie's late, great cat, seems to be overwhelmed, leaving Dulcie to manage an increasingly backstabbing crew of professional rivals, one of whom may be a killer"--Publisher's website.

Did a down on his luck former student steal a priceless book? Grad student and cat lover Dulcie Schwartz thinks not - and she sets out to prove it. It's spring break, and Dulcie Schwartz has stayed behind in almost-deserted Cambridge, Massachusetts to concentrate on her thesis. But when a former student turned vagrant, Jeremy Mumbles, is found injured, with a valuable missing book clutched in his arms, Dulcie can't seem to let it go. What was he doing...