Undercover Cat is a novel by Gordon and Mildred Gordon

The Gordons (writers)

The Gordons are crime fiction authors Gordon Gordon and his wife Mildred Gordon . Both attended the University of Arizona where they met and later married in 1932. They have written many crime fiction novels, with some being been filmed...

, about a cat who assists the FBI in tracking down a pair of bank robbers. It was published in 1963.

It has been adapted to film twice, as That Darn Cat! (1965) and That Darn Cat (1997).

Plot summary

Pancho, also known as Darn Cat or DC, is in the habit of prowling the neighborhood at night. One night he returns home with a wristwatch round his neck. It is determined that the watch belongs to a bank teller who is being held hostage by bank robbers. The FBI put surveillance on the cat in the hope he will lead them to the kidnappers. They are helped and hampered by Pancho's human family and their neighbors.