"Me, I want it on the record now that I do not want to die hot and sweaty on a gym floor, surrounded by the smell of gym socks and sneakers." Cat's animal instincts help her to solve a lost kitten caper, but that case leads to a more prominent one. Who murdered local high school basketball hero Julius "Juky" Kay, star forward of the Oscar Robertson Rattlesnakes? Soon, Cat is crutch-deep in corruption, having sustained her first sports injury in the process of investigating Juky's death.