The Cat Who Could Read Backwards (The Cat Who… Mysteries, Book 1)

The world of modern art is a mystery to many. But for Jim Qwilleran it turns into a mystery of another sort when his assignment to cover the art beat for the Daily Fluxion leads down the path to murder. A stabbing in an art gallery, vandalised paintings, a fatal fall from a scaffolding - this is not at all what Qwilleran expects when he turns his reporting talents to art. But now Qwilleran and his newly found partner, Koko the brilliant Siamese, are in their element - sniffing out clues and confounding criminals intent on mayhem and murder.

“Praise for the Cat Who... series: 'The fastidious plotting is designed to appeal to more than just the cat-lover' The Times; 'This droll and engaging mystery...firmly grips the reader...a lively witty tale bolstered by sharply etched characters' Publishers Weekly; 'An engaging tongue-in-cheek yarn with a sting in the tail that won't just appeal to the cat-lover' Belfast Telegraph; 'It's a Wonderful Life meets The Aristocats in this daft but endearing whodunnit' Liverpool Daily Post; 'Mrs Braun has a breezy style; the cats are really smart' New York Times Book Review; 'Great fun!' Lawrence Block 'Entertaining and absorbing mysteries which, in the tradition of all good whodunnits, keep you guessing right to the end' Dumfries and Galloway Standard 'Lilian Jackson Braun purveys delight from beginning to end' Los Angeles Times 'Like news from Lake Woebegon, Braun's Cat Who... series...has charmed readers' Publishers Weekly 'Light-hearted originals... The mix of crime and cats [is] catnip to readers who like both' Chicago Sun-Times 'An offbeat series with a good deal of charm' The Baltimore Sun 'Braun writes with charm and sureness' Cleveland Plain Dealer”

Praise for the Cat Who... series:

'The fastidious plotting is designed to appeal to more than just the cat-lover' The Times;

'This droll and engaging mystery...firmly grips the reader...a lively witty tale bolstered by sharply etched characters' Publishers Weekly;

'An engaging tongue-in-cheek yarn with a sting in the tail that won't just appeal to the cat-lover' Belfast Telegraph;

'It's a Wonderful Life meets The Aristocats in this daft but endearing whodunnit' Liverpool Daily Post;

'Mrs Braun has a breezy style; the cats are really smart' New York Times Book Review;

'Great fun!' Lawrence Block

'Entertaining and absorbing mysteries which, in the tradition of all good whodunnits, keep you guessing right to the end' Dumfries and Galloway Standard

'Lilian Jackson Braun purveys delight from beginning to end' Los Angeles Times

'Like news from Lake Woebegon, Braun's Cat Who... series...has charmed readers' Publishers Weekly

'Light-hearted originals... The mix of crime and cats [is] catnip to readers who like both' Chicago Sun-Times

'An offbeat series with a good deal of charm' The Baltimore Sun

'Braun writes with charm and sureness' Cleveland Plain Dealer

Lilian Jackson Braun began writing her Cat Who... detective series when one of her own Siamese cats mysteriously fell to its death from her apartment block. She and her husband, Earl, live in the mountains of North Carolina.

The world of modern art is a mystery to many. But for Jim Qwilleran it turns into a mystery of another sort when his assignment to cover the art beat for the Daily Fluxion leads down the path to murder. A stabbing in an art gallery, vandalised paintings, a fatal fall from a scaffolding - this is not at all what Qwilleran expects when he turns his reporting talents to art. But now Qwilleran and his newly found partner, Koko the brilliant Siamese, are in their element - sniffing out clues and confounding criminals intent on mayhem and murder.

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