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The Cat Who Went Up the Creek (The Cat Who)
Series: The Cat Who
Volume: 24
Genre: Other
ISBN: 039914675X
Pages: 226 pages
Publisher: Putnam
Price: 15.00
Reader Rating: Not rated
The Cat Who Went Up the Creek by Lilian Jackson Braun

Description: In Braun's 24th Cat Who... mystery (after 2001's The Cat Who Smelled a Rat), journalist James Mackintosh "Qwill" Qwilleran ("the richest man in the northeast central United States") and his two Siamese cats, Kao K'o Kung ("Koko") and Yum Yum, find themselves in the thick of another light and lively murder investigation in rural Moose County. When Lori Bamba, the new manager with her husband of the Nutcracker Inn in Black Creek, complains that the old place is haunted and making her feel gloomy, Qwill agrees to spend several nights with his cats at the converted Victorian mansion. Koko's noise gets them moved from the turret room, where the cats like to watch squirrels, to a cabin recently vacated because its occupant was murdered. Koko stumbles on a clue to the murder, while Qwill locates the source of the inn's haunting. In the meantime, Qwill's need for material for his newspaper column prompts him to help promote many local activities: the production of a Gilbert and Sullivan opera, a historical re-enactment of a lumberjack's rowdy evening, the opening of an antiques fair and mall, the launching of a book of photographs of scenic Moose County, the adoption of a boy orphaned by a suicide and another murder. As usual, the various mysteries and their ultimate solutions matter a lot less than the smalltown doings of the author's irresistible characters, both human and feline. This gentle, entertaining tale is proof once again that Braun reigns supreme as the queen of the cat cozies.

Also in this series are The Cat Who had 14 Tales, The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern, The Cat Who Turned on and Off, The Cat Who Saw Red, The Cat Who Played Brahms, The Cat Who Played Post Office, The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare, The Cat Who Sniffed Glue, The Cat Who Went Underground, The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts, The Cat Who Lived High, The Cat Who Knew a Cardinal, The Cat Who Moved a Mountain, The Cat Who Wasn't There, The Cat Who Went into the Closet, The Cat Who Came to Breakfast, The Cat Who Blew the Whistle, The Cat Who Said Cheese, The Cat Who Tailed a Thief, The Cat Who Sang for the Birds, The Cat Who Saw Stars, The Cat Who Robbed a Bank, The Cat Who Smelled a Rat, The Cat Who Brought Down the House, The Cat Who Talked Turkey, The Cat Who Went Bananas, The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell, The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers Return to the Lilian Jackson Braun page.

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