The cat who sniffed glue

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Title:

The cat who sniffed glue

Author:

Braun, Lilian Jackson, author.

Series:

Cat who... series ;

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Summary:

Jim Qwilleran and his feline sleuthing companions search for a motive to the murder of Harley Fitch and his preganant wife Belle in the isolated community of Pickax.

Physical Description:

207 p. ; 23 cm.

Genre:

Detective and mystery fiction.

Subject Term:

Qwilleran, Jim (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.

Yum Yum (Fictitious character : Braun) -- Fiction.

Koko (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.

Country life -- Fiction.

Millionaires -- Fiction.

Siamese cat -- Fiction.

Cat owners -- Fiction.

Vandalism -- Fiction.

Cats -- Fiction.

Publisher:

Putnam,

Publication Date:

1988

ISBN:

9780399133817

Publication Information:

New York : Putnam, c1988.

Call Number:

BRAUN

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Item Barcode	Collection	Call Number	Status	Item Holds
33607002350943	Adult Fiction	BRAUN	Searching... Unknown	Searching... Unavailable

Living in the peaceful city of Pickax may be restful, but it certainly isn't dull. At least not for one of the most eligible bachelors in town, veteran newspaperman Jim Qwilleran. Having inherited millions, Qwilleran and his two feline companions, Koko and Yum Yum, are preparing to settle down into a life of purrfect luxury. That is, until the son of a rich banker and his wife are found murdered. To the police, it looks like a robbery gone awry. But then Koko develops an odd appetite for glue. Qwilleran doesn't spot the clue until his beloved Siamese's taste for paste tangles them in a web of love, danger, and their stickiest case yet!

Author Notes

Lilian Jackson Braun was born on June 20, 1913. After starting out as a copywriter for Detroit department stores, she worked for The Detroit Free Press for nearly 30 years. In the 1960s, her cat died in a fall from a 10th-floor window in Detroit. Neighbors later told her that someone pushed the cat. To work through her feelings, she wrote a short story based on the incident. The result was her first three novels, The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern, and The Cat Who Turned On and Off. After an 18-year break, she published The Cat Who Saw Red. During her lifetime, she wrote 29 titles in The Cat Who... series. She died on June 4, 2011 of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at the age of 97.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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In this tame, nonmysterious mystery, bucolic Pickax City, in Moose County (``400 miles north of everywhere'') is first disrupted by vandalism, then by murder. When Harley Fitch, vice-president of the Pickax Bank, and his wife, Belle, are found shot to death, police chief Brodie, a bagpipe-playing Scotsman, thinks that vandals, from neighboring, low-class Chipmonk are responsible. After three of the suspects die in a car accident, the case is effectively closed. But Jim Qwilleran (``former journalist, now heir to the Klingenschoen fortunea big man about 50, with graying hair, bushy moustache and doleful expression'') doesn't agree. Involved though he is in starting up a newspaper, juggling several platonic romances, redecorating his house and spoiling his Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum, he finds time to snoop around. He doesn't discover anything, except for the spotted pasts of the deceased. Eventually, the killer attacks Qwilleran and his identity is made known; there are no clues, no logical way for the reader to figure out whodunit. The author's device of introducing every scene with stage directions, and her reliance on stereotypical characters, may bore even the readers who find Koko and Yum Yum as irresistible as Braun ( The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare , The Cat Who Played Post Office ) does. Mystery Guild featured alternate. (September) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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