I've just started Lawrence Block's The Burglar in the Library, set in a supposedly "Merrie Olde Englande"-type B&B in upstate New York. I haven't gotten to the mystery part yet but so far there's a very good plot line about Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, and some really funny bits.
Bernie and Carolyn, with the cat Raffles in his carrier, have just gotten off the train and approached the cab driver, who loads their suitcases but says he doesn't pick up animals. He has nothing again transporting them, but he draws the line at picking them up.
"Could be it strikes you as peculiar, but a man has to draw the line. People want you to haul all manner of livestock. If it's a cat today it'll be a horse tomorrow."
I snuck a peek at Raffles. He was a cat today, and somehow I couldn't make myself believe he'd be a horse tomorrow.