The Cat Who Could Read Backwards review
Feb. 8th, 2011 01:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearThe Cat Who series, by Lilian Jackson Braun, is another one of my random BookMooch discoveries - snaffled from someone's inventory in addition to a book I really wanted when they insisted I took two. Thinking they sounded like fun, I looked up the first in the series and ordered that one from somone else.
It only took me a few hours to read The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, and it's certainly not going to win any awards for intellectual intrigue. It tells the story of Jim Qwilleran, a veteran journalist who solves murders with the help of his clue-sniffing moustache. In this first instalment, he comes across Koko, the Siamese cat, who also proves instrumental in solving the mystery - though, as mentioned, it's not exactly very complicated as mysteries go.
I'm assuming from the titles that the cat will be significant to all the cases, though I'm not sure how at the moment, since he never leaves the apartment where he lives. Still, it'll be fun finding out! I do plan to get more books in the series (there are well over 20), as they make a good palette cleanser when I need a break from longer, more in depth books.
This first one was written in 1966 and it is rather old fashioned in its tone and some of the ideas it expresses, but it's good fun overall and a pleasant way to divert my brain from time to time.
It only took me a few hours to read The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, and it's certainly not going to win any awards for intellectual intrigue. It tells the story of Jim Qwilleran, a veteran journalist who solves murders with the help of his clue-sniffing moustache. In this first instalment, he comes across Koko, the Siamese cat, who also proves instrumental in solving the mystery - though, as mentioned, it's not exactly very complicated as mysteries go.
I'm assuming from the titles that the cat will be significant to all the cases, though I'm not sure how at the moment, since he never leaves the apartment where he lives. Still, it'll be fun finding out! I do plan to get more books in the series (there are well over 20), as they make a good palette cleanser when I need a break from longer, more in depth books.
This first one was written in 1966 and it is rather old fashioned in its tone and some of the ideas it expresses, but it's good fun overall and a pleasant way to divert my brain from time to time.
