Okay, I'm mixing up authors for a silly post title but... How about a story where Sherlock Holmes is looking for a stolen parrot? It's the plot of a new short book by author Michael Chabon titled The Final Solution and it continues the great Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series. From the New York Times:
It is 1944, and Linus Steinman, a Jewish refugee from Germany, 9 years old, has not spoken since he arrived in the English countryside. He is alone except for a remarkable parrot that, along with snatches of Goethe and Schiller, sings enigmatic sequences of numbers in German. An aid society places boy and bird in a boarding house. The other lodgers grow mesmerized by the parrot, which they suspect is harboring secret naval ciphers or codes to Swiss bank accounts.One night a man is murdered and the parrot is stolen. Sherlock Holmes, 89 years old, is persuaded to take a break from his beekeeping to help reunite Linus with his pet, and in the process perhaps find the killer. Thus begins the conventional detective story.
I read mysteries like I guzzle vodka, a lot! But I've never read one of the "cat" mysteries. But this sounds "normal enough" that I think I would really enjoy it.
If any of you have already read The Final Solution then please share your "review" with us in the comments.