In 1990 Akif Pirincci won Germany's prize for best crime novel. It is a clever, offbeat thriller in which the sleuth and most of the other main characters are cats. The detective( the narrator), Francis, discover that whoever is murdering the neighborhood tabbys has a warped mind and is attempting to breed a "super race" of felines. After discovering a fanatical cult of self-flagellating felines who worship a martyred cat, Claudandus, Francis is aided by Pascal, a cat who uses a computer, in unearthing another clue - the journal of a half-mad professor who performed sadistic laboratory experiments on cats.