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The Cat Who Saw Red

Lilian Jackson Braun

  • 262 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 1986
  • 13 editions
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1 About this book

Something is amiss at Maus Haus. Not just the mystery of an unsolved "suicide" which hangs over the old mansion, but something ominous in the present-day residence. When Qwilleran moves in to work on his new gastronomical assignment, strange things begin to happen. First it's a scream in the night, then a vanishing houseboy. But when his old girl friend disappears, something has to be done. Qwilleran, Koko, and Yum Yum set out to solve the mystery--and find a murderer!

Qwilleran--a prize-winning reporter with a nose for crime. Koko--a Siamese cat with extraordinary talents and a flair for mystery. Yum Yum--a lovable Siamese adored by her two male companions. The most unlikely, most unusual, most delightful team in detective fiction!

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

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