The Cat Who... · Book 1
The Cat Who Could Read Backwards
- Published
- 1 January 1966
- Pages
- 245
- ISBN-13
- 9780425195208
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Cat Who Could Read Backwards opens the series in 1966 at 245 pages, introducing veteran newspaperman Jim Qwilleran and the two Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum, whose uncanny knack for pawing at exactly the right clue would run through the whole franchise. Lilian Jackson Braun's debut essentially originated what became the modern 'cat cozy' template.
Its place in The Cat Who...
The Cat Who Could Read Backwards is book 1 in the The Cat Who... series. It is followed by The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern. See the full The Cat Who... reading order.
Jim Qwilleran is a veteran newspaperman who inherits an enormous fortune and, along with it, two extraordinarily perceptive Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum, who have an uncanny knack for pawing at exactly the clue that cracks a case. Relocating from the city to the small town of Pickax in "Moose County, 400 miles north of everywhere," Qwilleran works as a columnist for the local paper, and his cats' odd behavior — knocking a book off a shelf, staring fixedly at a particular object — routinely turns out to be the…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780425195208