The Cat Who... · Book 20
The Cat Who Tailed a Thief
- Published
- 1 January 1997
- Pages
- 254
- ISBN-13
- 9780747253914
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Cat Who Tailed a Thief, the nineteenth entry in the series, was published in 1997 at 254 pages. More than a decade into the post-1986 revival, Braun was still writing near-annual entries built around Qwilleran's column work in Pickax and Koko and Yum Yum's semi-mystical clue-finding instincts.
Its place in The Cat Who...
The Cat Who Tailed a Thief is book 20 in the The Cat Who... series. It follows The Cat Who Said Cheese. It is followed by The Cat Who Sang for the Birds. 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 9780786532834
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780747253914