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The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers

Lilian Jackson Braun

  • 191 pages · about 3 hours
  • First published 1951
  • 12 editions
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1 About this book

Times are a-changin' in Pickax, giving Jim Qwilleran some newsworthy notes for the Qwill Pen. A new senior center is in the works as well as a frisky production of Cats. And a local mansion is being converted into a charitable museum.

Good thing there's lots to keep Qwill busy because Polly Duncan is off to Paris, temporarily leaving him without his lady companion. But when a mysterious death from a bee sting leaves everyone but Koko the Siamese in a state of confusion, the kitty with sixty whiskers will need to stop pussyfooting around and let Qwill in on the deadly secret...

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

  • Cozy Mystery
  • Small Town
  • Cats
  • Siamese cats
  • Mystery
  • Country life
  • Amateur Sleuth
  • Journalists

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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