The Cat Who Robbed a Bank
by Lilian Jackson Braun
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Author: Lilian Jackson BraunEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-01-01
ISBN: 0515129941
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Jove
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- ISBN13: 9780515129946
- Condition: New
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Book Review: The cat's meow
Summary: 5 Stars
This is my first in the "Cat Who" series and the most recent of 23 so I've got a lot of catching up to do in this charming and utterly delightful series. Jim Qwilleram is a retired, and very successful journalist who happens to be the owner of a large fortune and two crazy but beautiful Siamese cats. The male, Koko, has exraordinary powers of prescience and feels and knows things before they happen,and Yum Yum is a female with a will of iron and enough charm to melt the hardest heart, providing she gets her own way immediately. When a jeweller from Chicago comes to town, as he does every 5 years or so, to buy local jewellery and to sell new jewellery to the ladies of the town, the ladies are all aflutter with excitement as he flatters them and makes them feel special. When his murdered body is found in his bed at the local Inn, they are convinced that it had to have been done by an out of towner as none of the locals would do such a dastardly deed. This is a tiny book, filled with the most wonderful characters and all of the quirkiness of a small town and I can definitely feel the need to read all of the other 22!
Summary of The Cat Who Robbed a Bank
When a visiting estate jeweler is found dead in his Pickax hotel room, Jim Qwilleran and his Siamese cats must do their best to find the purr-petrator.
Qwilleran and his crime-solving Siamese cats KoKo and Yum Yum are back on the case in Pickax, the biggest little city in Moose County, which is 400 miles north of everywhere but still boasts a remarkably sophisticated social and cultural scene. Hardly a day or a night goes by without a tea, dinner party, crafts fair, play, or pageant, all of which are attended and described in great detail by Qwilleran, a former crime reporter whose not very onerous duties entail writing a feature column for the local newspaper as well as overseeing the civic philanthropy made possible by an inheritance from a wealthy friend of his deceased mother. Fans of this long-running and immensely popular series will delight in this 23rd installment, in which the matrons of Pickax are buying French perfume and blueing their hair for the annual visit of Mr. Delacamp, a jeweler from Down Under (Chicago), whose arrival will coincide with the reopening of the town's fabulously refurbished grand hotel. When the mysterious Mr. Delacamp is found dead in the presidential suite, and his "niece" goes missing along with the jewels and the cash, Qwilleran and his curious cats investigate. As usual, it takes a couple of Siamese with extraordinary powers (even for cats) and a current preoccupation with pennies, gum wrappers, and paper towels to point their owner toward the solution; Qwilleran may not be the quickest sleuth in Moose County, but with KoKo and Yum Yum on the case, he doesn't need to be. This is the coziest of cozies, a particular niche in the mystery subcategory of crime-solving felines of which Braun is the acknowledged mistress, and once again she delivers the goods. --Jane Adams
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