YASID aliens, cats, and nuns
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was one of the few times I'd not received a good answer for a request. Help
get our recent stats up, perhaps.
I believe it was from one of the magazines, 80s - 90s, something like that.
An SF murder mystery, an alien group is visiting (maybe staying at) a
religious order, when one of them is murdered. A key point is that one of
the women (nun,probably) talked to her cat, which gave one of the aliens the
impression that the cat was able to converse in English and was therefore a
potential witness.
Brian
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Tim McDaniel
Something to the effect of
Sister Mary Magdalene said, "What if I told you the cat saw you enter
his room?"
"Then the cat lied."
? Probably "A Little Intelligence", by "Robert Randall", a pseudonym
of Robert Silverberg and Randall Garrett.
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Dorothy J Heydt
It's by Randall Garrett and came under the category of "I bet if
I put in murders, and cats, AND nuns, Tony Boucher will buy it!!"
So he wrote it and Tony didn't buy it, but _Future SF_ did, in
1958. "A Little Intelligence." It's in _The Best of Randall
Garrett_ (Pocket, 1982).
"I should say the cat was lying."
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Only _The Best of Randall Garrett_ (q.v.), edited by Silverberg,
reprints the stort with just the Garrett by-line. Silverberg
mentions another story, by "Robert Randall", of the "I bet we
can sell this to Tony" persuasion, about one Father Riley, but
Boucher didn't buy that one either.
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"Tim McDaniel" <tm...@panix.com> wrote in message
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>>I believe it was from one of the magazines, 80s - 90s, something like
>>that. An SF murder mystery, an alien group is visiting (maybe
>>staying at) a religious order, when one of them is murdered. A key
>>point is that one of the women (nun,probably) talked to her cat,
>>which gave one of the aliens the impression that the cat was able to
>>converse in English and was therefore a potential witness.
>
> Something to the effect of
>
> Sister Mary Magdalene said, "What if I told you the cat saw you enter
> his room?"
>
> "Then the cat lied."
That sounds like it.
> ? Probably "A Little Intelligence", by "Robert Randall", a pseudonym
> of Robert Silverberg and Randall Garrett.
Oops, sounds like my recollection of it being from a magazine was wrong. I
must have read it in an anthology or collection.
Brian
Jack Tingle
of stories. It's a shame they didn't write a few more.
Regards,
Jack Tingle