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Summary: The Cat Who Lived High
Review: Another interesting mystery with Qwilleran, the middle-aged news writer for the Daily Fluxion and his Siamese cats Koko and Yum-Yum. This time, Qwilleran returns to Junktown as a millionaire after inheriting a large sum from his aunt. He reluctantly moves from his estate in the quiet North to the crime-ridden and seedy life in Junk town. Junk town is beginning to revive however. He moves into the penthouse apartment of the old historic Casablanca apartment building. His goal is to have the elderly Countess agree to sell the decaying property to him so that the Klingenschoen fund can renovate the building back to it's glory days. However, Koko accidentally uncovers clues to the murder of the prominent art dealer who lived in the apartment previously...
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Summary: The Cat Who Did It Again!
Review: Attention all mystery fans! If you are looking for that one book that will keep you wondering till the end or what is going to happen next; then this is the book for you. Once again Ms. Braun has created the book that any mystery lover will have problems putting down.
The book starts out, of course almost normal with the adventures of Jim Qwilleran and his two feline copanions in their small town of Pickaxe. They are about to take a trip "Down Below" to check out an old famous hotel. However there is a catch. The first few words in this book are the bait to this prize. I'm not going to tell you what they are but I will give you one hint...... Someone dies!
If I had the chance to give this book a professional review I would say that it deserves five stars and should definetely be on the Top seller list at all your local book stores. This book is just so good because it always keeps you wondering who dunit and why? I just wish that everyone could read this book.
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Summary: The Cat Who Did It Again!
Review: Attention all mystery fans! If you are looking for that one book that will keep you wondering till the end or what is going to happen next; then this is the book for you. Once again Ms. Braun has created the book that any mystery lover will have problems putting down.
The book starts out, of course almost normal with the adventures of Jim Qwilleran and his two feline copanions in their small town of Pickaxe. They are about to take a trip "Down Below" to check out an old famous hotel. However there is a catch. The first few words in this book are the bait to this prize. I'm not going to tell you what they are but I will give you one hint...... Someone dies!
If I had the chance to give this book a professional review I would say that it deserves five stars and should definetely be on the Top seller list at all your local book stores. This book is just so good because it always keeps you wondering who dunit and why? I just wish that everyone could read this book.
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Summary: this cat lives high
Review: delightfully-wrought children's prose with a light touch seems to aptly describe this entry to the popular-selling series. All in all, a thoroughly enjoyable read, particularly the passages involving the cat's journey into a catnip Wonderland that Alice herself could only have dreamt in an English tearoom toadstoll trip. Kids will love the laughs; parents will get nostalgic ...
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Summary: MURDER AT THE CASABLANCA
Review: Great book. In this 11th entry in The Cat Who... series, we get another change of location as Qwill and the cats go back "Down Below" to possibly help save an old apartment building from destruction. I actually was able to pick up some of the clues and knew who didn't commit the murder, but not who did!
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Summary: One of Braun's Best!
Review: Hardcore mystery fans may find it a bit of a stretch, but if your taste runs to expertly written and very light fiction, you can't do better than Lillian Jackson Braun's "The Cat Who..." series. Her detective, reporter James Qwilleran, investigates crimes with the aid of his Siamese cats--and the solutions to the crime inevitably rest more upon intution than actual deduction. While the premise sounds farfetched, Braun's work is actually less fanciful than you might expect, and she presents her eccentric characters and stories with great charm.THE CAT WHO LIVED HIGH finds Qwill enticed from his home in Moose County (miles and miles north of everywhere) to the mean streets of the city "down below," where an old friend hopes to interest him in the restoration of a landmark apartment building--but no sooner is Qwill installed in the penthouse than the astute Koko uncovers evidence of murder. Braun's novels often have a slyly satirical touch, and that is seen to particular advantage in this title, which finds Qwill musing on the subject of urban decay, crime, and people whose name-spellings make as much sense backwards as forwards. One of Braun's best!
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Summary: Meeting of the old and the new
Review: I enjoy murder mysteries in general, especially the "who dunnit" type, of which this is one. Since I was also "raised" by a Siamese cat named Impy, and kept in line over my life time by a series of his successors, I especially enjoy this series. The author definitely has an appreciation for the character of the breed. This book is no exception. The antics of KoKo are always a joy and remind me of one of my own early pets, Mr Sin. This particular volume is especially fun as it partakes of some of both of Quill's lives: that of down and out reporter from "Down Under" and that of the recluse multimillionaire from "up North." Since much of the description fits the Minneapolis and Northern Minnesota area from which I come, I also feel a certain resonance with the characters and their settting. The story is an elaborate one with a slightly macabre twist. I actually figured it out because I had a small bit of information from my own experience that helped me do so, but I still found the book a satisfying read
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Summary: EXCELLANT
Review: I have most of the "cat who" books and greatly enjoyed them all. They are fun, entertaining, easy to read and well written. I look forward to reading the next one. I especially enjoyed trying to remember the old characters from the previous novel and now wish I hadn't traded in that book at the used book store. Now I just hope they come out with a hard back version that has a collection of the series is order of publication to put on my book shelf next to my Agatha Christie's.
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Summary: Getting better
Review: I just can't agree with the reviewer who commented that the cat series was growing weaker. In fact, I think this was a bit better than the last several preceding this, partly because of the new surroundings. Granted, the plots of the cat books are sometimes a bit weak, even outlandish. And the details of every last thing Qwilleran had for breakfast, lunch and dinner can be a trifle tiresome after the tenth time or so, especially when the same sort of detail is applied to the cats' meals and snacks. But I can tolerate all those because the characters seem real and because the atmosphere is so carefully drawn. In this case, for example, we have the building owner, the "countess," with overtones of Miss Havisham telling Pip (or Qwill, in this case) simply to "Play." And then there is the apartment building, the Casablanca, with its rickety elevators and other signs of age and disrepair. I feel that I actually know the countess and can smell the Casablanca or find my way through the hallways in the dark. One has to go by the sum total in evaluating a book, i.e., the credits minus the debits. That being so, I have to give this a solid recommendation as I look forward to the next in the series. The perfect mystery? Not at all. But pretty good.
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Summary: Getting better
Review: I just can't agree with the reviewer who commented that the cat series was growing weaker. In fact, I think this was a bit better than the last several preceding this, partly because of the new surroundings. Granted, the plots of the cat books are sometimes a bit weak, even outlandish. And the details of every last thing Qwilleran had for breakfast, lunch and dinner can be a trifle tiresome after the tenth time or so, especially when the same sort of detail is applied to the cats' meals and snacks. But I can tolerate all those because the characters seem real and because the atmosphere is so carefully drawn. In this case, for example, we have the building owner, the "countess," with overtones of Miss Havisham telling Pip (or Qwill, in this case) simply to "Play." And then there is the apartment building, the Casablanca, with its rickety elevators and other signs of age and disrepair. I feel that I actually know the countess and can smell the Casablanca or find my way through the hallways in the dark. One has to go by the sum total in evaluating a book, i.e., the credits minus the debits. That being so, I have to give this a solid recommendation as I look forward to the next in the series. The perfect mystery? Not at all. But pretty good.
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