The Cat Who Could Read Backwards - Softcover

Braun, Lilian Jackson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0425195201 ISBN 13: 9780425195208

Publisher: Berkley Pub Group, 2003

Synopsis

More than thirty years ago, Lilian Jackson Braun wrote The Cat Who Could Read Backwards and launched the phenomenally successful Cat Who... mystery series. In it we are introduced to the extraordinary detective team of prize-winning reporter Jim Qwilleran and Koko, the brilliant Siamese cat. Jim Qwilleran is somewhat disgruntled when his assignment for the Daily Fluxion is to cover the art beat. For a hard-nosed crime reporter it's like being put out to pasture. Little does he suspect that this "fluff" assignment will lead down the path to murder. A stabbing in an art gallery, vandalized paintings, a fatal fall from a scaffold are not at all what Qwilleran expects. Even less, he could not possibly predict that the solution to these crimes wouldn't come from his newfound partner, Koko the Siamese with exceptional abilities for sniffing out clues.

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Review

Praise for the Cat Who... series:
'The fastidious plotting is designed to appeal to more than just the cat-lover' The Times;
'This droll and engaging mystery...firmly grips the reader...a lively witty tale bolstered by sharply etched characters' Publishers Weekly;
'An engaging tongue-in-cheek yarn with a sting in the tail that won't just appeal to the cat-lover' Belfast Telegraph;
'It's a Wonderful Life meets The Aristocats in this daft but endearing whodunnit' Liverpool Daily Post;
'Mrs Braun has a breezy style; the cats are really smart' New York Times Book Review;
'Great fun!' Lawrence Block
'Entertaining and absorbing mysteries which, in the tradition of all good whodunnits, keep you guessing right to the end' Dumfries and Galloway Standard
'Lilian Jackson Braun purveys delight from beginning to end' Los Angeles Times
'Like news from Lake Woebegon, Braun's Cat Who... series...has charmed readers' Publishers Weekly
'Light-hearted originals... The mix of crime and cats [is] catnip to readers who like both' Chicago Sun-Times
'An offbeat series with a good deal of charm' The Baltimore Sun
'Braun writes with charm and sureness' Cleveland Plain Dealer

Book Description

The most unlikely, most unusual and most delightful team in detective fiction return in another purrfectly extraordinary mystery

Edition details

• Publisher: Berkley Pub Group
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0425195201
• ISBN 13: 9780425195208
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 256