Classy Van von Rhine finds herself in her dream job - managing the Crystal Phoenix hotel, and her first job is to oversee its renovation. She has no idea that Nicky Fontana, her boss, is a member of a Mafia family. Early on, Van and Nicky can barely tolerate each other, but before long they're swept up in romance. Midnight Louie watches as a silver-haired man appears down the hall from Van's room, and hoodlums try to sabotage the hotel work. Van's dream job is quickly turning into a nightmare, and her love life seems about to follow suit...

In Book 2 of the original Midnight Louie quartet, shy Darcy McGill would love to teach her attractively stuffy writing professor a few things about the real world. When the professor meets Darcy's "showgirl sister" Sirene in her Crystal Phoenix dressing room, the showgirl takes the professor for a walk on the wild side. When one of Sirene's spurned suitors decides he wants her at any cost, can Midnight Louie help the Professor save Sirene and discover which woman he really loves?

Pistol-packing poker queen Jill O'Rourke is an Annie Oakley at nailing targets or cards. She needs to be sharp at both, since she secretly supports her desert-rat grandfather and his cronies on her poker winnings—a dangerous profession for a young, pint-sized woman in Las Vegas. Stardusted balladeer Johnny Diamond finds himself a prisoner of fame when a stalker threatens him. Love and death are in the cards, but the jet-black feline house detective known as Midnight Louie sees all, knows all, and gets his paws into the action.

When a tourist named Gayle meets up with a mysterious stranger named Solitaire at the Crystal Phoenix Hotel in Las Vegas, she quickly learns she isn't in Kansas anymore. A double-dealing pair of hit men send the unlikely couple running for their lives into the surrounding desert. But by the time the sand settles after a desert showdown, both love and money come up winners as Midnight Louie, feline private eye extraordinaire, once again successfully combines the roles of Sam Spade and Cupid.