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.
Key facts about The Cat Who Could Read Backwards
The Cat Who Could Read Backwards is a novel by Lilian Jackson Braun. Readers have had it since 1966. It runs to 245 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of The Cat Who Could Read Backwards. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780425195208 to find the main one.
The Cat Who Could Read Backwards is book 1 of 32 in The Cat Who... series. The series has 32 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. The Private Life of the Cat Who... is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 27 October 2003.
That series sits on our cozy mystery shelf. Meanwhile, The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers is the latest published Lilian Jackson Braun book on file, from 2007.
About Lilian Jackson Braun
Lilian Jackson Braun was an American author best known for creating The Cat Who... mystery series, one of the longest-running and best-loved cozy mystery franchises in the genre. The series follows Jim Qwilleran, a former big-city crime reporter who relocates to the small fictional town of Pickax in Moose County, accompanied by his two Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum, whose uncanny instincts repeatedly help him crack local murders. See every Lilian Jackson Braun book in order.
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