Book review – The
Cat Who XXXX Lillian Jackson Brown.
Jim Qwilleran, is
rich, good looking, witty, and wears a moustache. To top it all off,
he is a philanthropist, and bachelor! He looks very well after his
two Siamese cats, Kao K'o-Kung (Koko for short) and Yum Yum. There is only one reason to stay
well clear of him: People get murdered around him left right and centre, all the time. Point
in case: PickAxe, Jim's hometown has experienced a murder rate of at least 1 per year! Most of the rest of the
novel is then spent on Jim solving the murders. However, most of the heavy
lifting is done by Koko, who seems to be much smarter than his owner.
But because Jim is such a good guy, he actually acknowledges this.
The novels are from the days without Amazon, cell phones and
internet (the first book in the series was published in 1966), and this makes the stories very cute. Must read for all the cat owners and detective genre readers out there.
For more on this series: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cat_Who...
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