Kaspar Prince of Cats

Kaspar Prince of Cats opens in 1912 at the Savoy Hotel, when orphaned bell-boy Johnny Trott unexpectedly finds himself the guardian of Kaspar Kandinsky, "the most beautiful cat in all of Russia". Kaspar makes friends with one of the guests, Lizziebeth, only child of wealthy New York parents, who starts off being a "hoity-toity" know-it-all, but turns out to be a thoroughly good egg. The three friends battle the kind of class (and species) prejudice you'd expect in an age when everyone knew their place, but this is nothing compared with what they encounter when they sail on the "biggest, fastest ship in the whole world": the Titanic.