Nine Lives

Plot:

NIgel awakes the obvious gay interest of dodgy New York (fake) art gallery owner and fence Lagerfeld when he and Sydney are begged by foxy antiquities museum curator Elizabeth Rukeyser to retrieve before the Egyptian exposition opens the golden statue of cat goddess Mafdet, stolen from her apartment, where she sneaked it out to. The heist bares the mark of cat burglar Roselyn, who attacks them but ends up murdered for the statue, which was bought by crooked diplomat Juan Escuevero. Nigel ends up kidnapped at blade-point to force Sydney to find it before the midnight ...