The Cat Who Sniffed Glue
Book 8 of The Cat Who...
Language: English
Animals Biography & Autobiography Cat owners Cats Country life Detective Detective and mystery stories Editors Fiction Fiction - Mystery General Jim (Fictitious character) Journalists Journalists - United States Juvenile Fiction Koko (Fictitious character) Millionaires Moose County (Imaginary place) Mysteries & Detective Stories Mystery Mystery & Detective Mystery & Detective - Cat Sleuths Mystery & Detective - General Mystery & Detective - Series Pets Publishers Qwilleran Qwilleran; Jim (Fictitious character) Siamese cat Suspense Women Sleuths Yum Yum (Fictitious character : Braun) Yum Yum (Fictitious character: Braun) vandalism
Publisher: Jove
Published: Feb 28, 1989
Description:
From Publishers Weekly
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.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Product Description
It looks like robbery gone awry to the police. But then Koko develops an oddappetite for glue, and he and Qwilleran become entangled in a web of love anddanger in their stickiest case yet! "The mix of crime and cats (is) catnip toreaders who like both!"--Chicago Sun-Times. HC: Putnam.