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The Cat Who Could Read Backwards

Lilian Jackson Braun

  • 245 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 1966
  • 23 editions
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1 About this book

The Cat Who Could Read Backwards is the first novel in Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who... series, published in 1966. The book introduces the main character, former crime reporter James Qwilleran, who starts to look after a Siamese cat named Koko, who is literate.

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Good for readers who want: a cozy mystery and cats.

  • Mystery
  • Cozy Mystery
  • Small Town
  • Cats
  • Siamese cats
  • Journalists
  • Koko (fictitious character)
  • Michigan

2 About Lilian Jackson Braun

1913–2011

Lilian Jackson Braun (June 20, 1913 – June 4, 2011) was an American writer known for her light-hearted series of The Cat Who... mystery novels. The Cat Who books features newspaper journalist Jim Qwilleran and his two Siamese cats, Koko (short for Kao K'o Kung) and Yum Yum, first in an unnamed midwestern American city and then in the fictitious small town of Pickax located in Moose County "400 miles north of everywhere".

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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