{"product_id":"9781439109663","title":"The Unscratchables","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnimal Farm \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003emeets\u003ci\u003e The Simpsons \u003c\/i\u003ein this inventive twist\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eon the hard-boiled detective novel, featuring a world made up exclusively of cats, dogs, and one ruthless fox...\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBull terrier Crusher McNash is a no-nonsense homicide detective who eats out of  the can and only bathes when his boss orders  him  to.  He’s  just  been thrownaboneaboutagruesome case involving Rottweilers torn apart by a savage killer, and the only lead he’s been able to sniff out is “an impression of movement” at the murder scene. Crusher suspects the killer is a cat, and there’s nothing he hates more than “the whole cream-lapping, wool-juggling, pajama-wearing, fence-sitting, bird-torturing, furball-coughing lot of them.” But he’ll have to start barking up a different tree if he wants help solving this case as his partner on this case is soymilk-drinking, pressed-suit- wearing Cassius Lap, an agent for the FBI (Feline Bureau of Investigation).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs this odd couple puts their paws together, their investiga- tion takes them from the bow- els of the Kennel into the tony streets of Kathattan. Soon, they begin to uncover a vast con- spiracy involving a cat who has been trained as a super-killer, capable of growing in size and ferocity and killing any dog who gets in his way—and who may be working for a media baron fox. But they’ll need to unravel the conspiracy, and quickly, if they want to stop the next killing before it’s too late.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWitty and irresistibly entertaining, this genre- bending mystery boldly mixes human and animal sensibilities in an entertaining satire of our cur- rent society.","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154661622000,"sku":"9781439109663","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781439109663_p0.jpg?v=1763755087","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781439109663","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}