It was a complete surprise to find out "whodunit." Still, I'll be reading the next book in the series. My quarrel is that I felt the author didn't play fair with the mystery. The reader learns more about the art world in The Daily Fluxion's area, meeting some of the characters around it. Since this is the introduction of Qwill to Koko, the mystery falls squarely on Qwill to solve with Koko providing what may be clues to the case. Qwill and Koko are destined for great things I suspect since there are 30 books in the series. His upstairs neighbor has a Siamese cat named Kao K'o-Kung. Jim Qwilleran (not Quw, Qui, ore Wul)is a newspaper reporter. The Cat Who Could Read Backwards was first published in 1966, and that timeframe is obviously part of the book, as can be seen from the newsroom setting. And where better to start than at the beginning? So now it is time for me to start reading this series. I remember that both she and I were impressed by the fact that Lilian Jackson Braun counted as a North Carolina author since Braun lived for many years in Tryon, North Carolina.
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