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The Cat Who Tailed a Thief (The Cat Who)
Series: The Cat Who
Volume: 19
Genre: Other
ISBN: 0515122408
Pages: 272 pages
Publisher: Jove
Price: $7.99
Reader Rating: Not rated
The Cat Who Tailed a Thief by Lilian Jackson Braun

Description: Nothing is sacred in this latest installment of the trials and tribulations of life in Moose County, "400 miles north of everywhere," as locals face a green Christmas, an outbreak of petty larceny and a tacky new resident. As the holidays approach, someone has taken to stealing small articles of apparently little value?gloves, sunglasses, a bag of old clothes, an antique doll. But these seem minor distractions from larger matters, like the new banker, Willard Carmichael, and his wife, Danielle, a flashy young woman with big hair who teeters on spiked heels as she flirts with an uncooperative newspaper columnist, Qwilleran, seen last in The Cat Who Said Cheese (1996). Willard fits right in, devoting himself to restoring Pleasant Street's Victorian homes with the help of Danielle's cousin, Carter Lee James, a preservation consultant. Just after Christmas, Willard is killed in a mugging in Detroit; then a local boy is arrested for the petty thefts and an old friend becomes engaged to James, all events that raise Qwill's suspicions and inspire strange behavior in his sleuthing cats, Koko and Yum Yum. Cranky and sometimes acerbic, Qwill fights off the sentimentality of the season while investigating the world of historically correct renovations. By springtime, with the help of Koko in particular, he brings a murderer and thief to justice in an accomplished mystery that is as smooth as the season's first snowfall.

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 Sang for the Birds, The Cat Who Saw Stars, The Cat Who Robbed a Bank, The Cat Who Smelled a Rat, The Cat Who Went Up the Creek, 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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