Meet Kitty Larsen, the world’s most unlikely detective. On the downhill side of 65, her figure has shifted from hourglass to pear-shaped; she wears false eyelashes, gobs of jewelry and custom-made tent dresses. A former mermaid with an aversion to water, Kitty made the giant leap from a ramshackle ranch house in North Dakota to a fancy Sutton Place apartment on Manhattan’s tres chic Upper East Side. The loves of her life are her fourth husband, the world-famous Seer to the Stars,” Tootie, her darling Shih Tzu, and Career Steps—The Agency with a Heart, the employment agency that she won in a poker game. In the first of the Sutton Place Mystery series, Kitty’s comfortable life takes a terrifying turn, when she must unmask the terpsichorean ape that is knocking off members of the health club for the rich and flabby where her niece works—or die trying.