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New York Times best-selling author Lilian Jackson Braun has won a dedicated following over the years with her endearing Cat Who... mysteries. Set "400 miles north of everywhere" in the fictional Moose County town of Pickax, the books feature mild-mannered journalist Jim Qwilleran and his super-sleuthing cats, Koko and Yum Yum. With his companion Polly in Paris, Qwill keeps himself occupied by writing an absurdist play called The Cat Who
...What Pickax, the town "400 miles north of everywhere," needs is a new bookstore. Ever since the old one burned down, the townspeople have had to go elsewhere. As wealthy resident James Qwilleran says, "A town without a bookstore is like a chicken with one leg." But just as Pickax prepares to celebrate the ground breaking for a new one, a body is discovered in a nearby wooded area. Turning their attention from books to clues, Qwill, Koko, and Yum
...Floyd Trevelyan’s historic steam locomotive, newly restored, is the newest attraction in Moose County. But the excitement is eclipsed by shock when Trevelyan disappears—along with millions of investors’ dollars. Puzzled and suspicious,...
11) Ed King
In Seattle of 1962, Walter Cousins, a mild-mannered actuary takes a risk of his own and makes...