Cat Who... Series, #22
Penguin
January 2001
Featuring: James Qwilleran; Koko and Yum Yum
304 pages ISBN: 0515129941 Paperback (reprint) Add to Wish List
It's September in Pickax, four hundred miles north of
everywhere, and the citizens of Moose County are all agog:
the Highland Games, celebrating Pickax's Scottish heritage
with such revelry as bagpipe skirling and tossing the
caber, are expected to yield aggressive county-partisan
competition; the town hotel is reopening in grand style;
and the mysterious Mr. Delacamp, a renowned estate jewelry
dealer from Chicago, is honoring the town with a visit.
The excitement rises to a fever pitch when Delacamp is
found murdered in his room at the new hotel - and his
assistant is inexplicably missing. Then the winner of the
caber-tossing contest disappears as well, and it's up to
journalist/philanthropist Jim Qwilleran and his
suspiciously sagacious Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum, to
get to the bottom of it all. Could Koko's newfound
interest in photographs, pennies, and paper towels help
lead Qwilleran to the murderer?.