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The Cat Who Smelled a Rat

#23 in series

by Lilian Jackson Braun
George Guidall
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With her light-hearted Cat Who mysteries, best-selling author Lilian Jackson Braun attracts fans of all age. Her most extraordinary detective team—reporter Jim Qwilleran and his pair of intriguing Siamese cats—takes on cases that baffle the whole town. October finds Moose County, 400 miles north of everywhere, in the grips of a record-breaking drought. With the danger of a wildfire threatening the village of Pickax, the locals pray for the annual fall blizzard. But trouble comes unexpectedly with a case of arson and the shooting death of a volunteer fireman. When the crime wave continues, it takes reporter Jim Qwilleran and his clever felines, KoKo and Yum Yum, to sniff out the rat behind it all. Refreshingly free of violence and harsh language, The Cat Who Smelled a Rat is a delightful blend of crime, silky cats, and endearing characters. Under narrator George Guidall's spell, the bemused Qwilleran and his whisker-twitching pets seem to spring from the pages to solve the case right in your very own living room.

  • Creators

  • Series

    The Cat Who

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    March 3, 2016

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781449872809
      • File size: 160824 KB
      • Duration: 05:35:02

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 1, 2001
      The 23rd entry in Braun's Cat Who... series (The Cat Who Robbed a Bank; The Cat Who Saw Stars; etc.) testifies to the amazing popularity of mysteries featuring cats. Once again philanthropist-journalist Jim Qwilleran, columnist for the Something, the local newspaper of Pickax City in Moose County, turns for crime-solving help to his insightful and sensitive Siamese sleuths, Koko and Yum Yum. It's late October and the residents of Pickax are praying for the Big One, the annual blizzard that ushers in the long winter. This year it is much needed since the extreme drought conditions have made the area a virtual tinderbox. After several fires break out, volunteers form the Citizens' Fire Watch to protect the historic shafthouses, all that remain of the county's once prosperous mines. Anxiety increases as more fires occur and a volunteer is shot dead at one of the shafthouses. When the president of the local curling club dies from a fall, Qwilleran, with a twitch of his moustache and an ear-splitting shriek from Koko, joins his feline assistants to find the rat responsible before snow flies. Regular fans will enjoy being back with old friends and will be intrigued by the eccentric new additions to Pickax. The complexities of small-town life and the feline antics portrayed with Braun's apt wit and humor combine with a puzzling mystery to make for a most welcome addition to the series. (Feb. 5) Forecast: With a solid bestseller track record for this series, this entry is sure to claw its way up the lists. British rights have been sold to Headline.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator George Guidall brings the small town of Pickax to life as he characterizes residents' anxieties about a coming snowstorm with excellent vocal changes in gender. When he switches to a staccato-paced newscaster relating the story of homicide and suspected arson at the Big B mine site, Guidall sets the stage for Koko, Siamese cat extraordinaire and erstwhile detective, to become involved in the crime. Koko's owner, James Quilleran, journalist and detective, sets out to "trap the rat," with Koko running alongside. Performed with delightful cat-like music breaks, this Cat Who. . . mystery is twenty-third in the series. G.D.W. (c) AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine
    • AudioFile Magazine
      Braun's 23rd Cat Who mystery again features gutsy feline detective Koko and his owner, middle-aged journalist Jim Qwilleran, each investigating in his own way a suspicious fire and death in their hometown of Pickax, Moose Co., before the season's first blizzard stops them. As George Guidall, the narrator, shifts uncannily from voice to voice, from gender to gender, from youth to age, we meet the local citizenry - librarian to nonagenarian - and try to hear the telltale accent of guilt in one of them. But he succeeds in keeping the "rat" out of the trap until the very end. The slow, tongue-in-cheek voice Guidall uses to impersonate Qwill adds lots of chuckles to the mystery. E.V. (c) AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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