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Lilian Jackson Braun brings back James Qwilleran and his famous felines, Koko and Yum Yum, for the twenty-ninth installment of the beloved, bestselling Cat Who . . . series.
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The history of Lilian Jackson Braun is perhaps as
exciting and mysterious as her novels. Between 1966 and 1968, she published
three novels to critical acclaim; The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern and The Cat Who Turned On and Off.
In 1966, The New York Times labeled Braun, "the new detective of
the year." Then, discouraged by the market's seemingly insatiable demand for sex and violence in mystery novels, she set the series aside for 18 years.
After retiring from the The Detroit Free Press, where she was the "Good Living" editor of for 29 years, she took up the series again with the publication of The Cat Who Saw Red (1986).
Within two years her publisher, Berkley, released four new novels in paperback and
reprinted the ...
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