The Cat Who... · Book 25

The Cat Who Went Up the Creek

by Lilian Jackson Braun

Published
1 January 2002
Pages
253
ISBN-13
9780786534883
Type
novel

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Cover of The Cat Who Went Up the Creek

About this book

The Cat Who Went Up the Creek, Lilian Jackson Braun's twenty-fourth novel in the series, was published in 2002 at 253 pages. Nearing the end of the run, it keeps the same low-violence, character-driven Moose County formula that had carried the series since its 1966 debut.

Its place in The Cat Who...

The Cat Who Went Up the Creek is book 25 in the The Cat Who... series. It follows The Cat Who Smelled a Rat. It is followed by Short and Tall Tales: Moose County Legends Collected by James Mackintosh Qwilleran. 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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