Lot 2 The Cat Who Mysteries by Lilian Jackson Braun Read Backwards, Wasn\'t There For Sale

This sale is for Two Hardcover \"The Cat Who\" Mystery Novels by Lilian Jackson Braun:
The Cat Who Could Read BackwardsJim Qwilleran is a prizewinning reporter who\'s been on the skids but is now coming back with a job as feature writer (mostly on the art scene) for the Daily Fluxion. George Bonifield Mountclemens, the paper\'s credentialed art critic, writes almost invariably scathing, hurtful reviews of local shows; delivers his pieces by messenger; lives with his all-knowing cat Koko in a lushly furnished house in a moldering neighborhood, and has a raft of enemies all over town.He offers the newcomer a tiny apartment in his building at a nominal rent, and Qwilleran grabs it, surmising the deal will involve lots of cat-sitting. Meanwhile, a gallery whose artists get happier treatment from Mountclemens is owned by Earl Lambreth. The acerbic critic has praised paintings there by a reclusive Italian named Scrano; the junk assemblages of Nino, who calls himself a ``Thingist,\'\' as well as works by Lambreth\'s attractive wife Zoe.It\'s Zoe who, one night past closing, finds her husband stabbed to death in the vandalized gallery. Days later, Qwilleran, guided by an insistent Koko, finds Mountclemens\'s knifed corpse on the patio behind his house.
The Cat Who Wasn\'t ThereQwill\'s on his way to Scotland - and on his way to solving another purr-plexing mystery. But this time Koko\'s nowhere the scene of the crime. He and Yum Yum are back in Pickax being coddled by a catsitter...but Koko won\'t sit still once Qwill\'s traveling party returns--minus one member. He\'s behaving oddly, and Qwill knows what that means: Koko may have been miles away from the murder scene, but he\'s just a whisker away from cracking the case! Paperback.
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