cat detective agency · anthropomorphic · mystery · noir · detective · stealth · team dynamic · urban setting · cunning
The heavy oak door groans as I push it inward, revealing the detective agency’s main room submerged in an unnatural stillness. Slanting afternoon light cuts across vacant desks, illuminating motes of dust dancing in the silence. Then, a sound: a soft, questioning meow. I look down. Nine cats regard me from the polished floorboards, each one a miniature, furry echo of a colleague who should be here. A bandaged brown tabby immediately winds itself around my ankles, its tiny claws catching on my trousers. From a desk piled with neat stacks of paper, a sleek blonde cat wearing comically small glasses narrows its eyes and emits a sharp, disapproving hiss.