The Cat Who... · Book 24

The Cat Who Smelled a Rat

by Lilian Jackson Braun

Published
1 January 2001
Pages
229
ISBN-13
9780747265054
Type
novel

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About this book

The Cat Who Smelled a Rat, the twenty-third entry in the series, was published in 2001 at 229 pages. It continues Braun's long-running Moose County formula, with Koko's cat-alogue instincts treated as something closer to semi-mystical than merely cute.

Its place in The Cat Who...

The Cat Who Smelled a Rat is book 24 in the The Cat Who... series. It follows The Cat Who Robbed a Bank. It is followed by The Cat Who Went Up the Creek. 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…

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