The Cat Who Turned On And Off by Lilian Jackson Braun
Jim Qwilleran's latest commission is a piece on Junktown - a ghetto of antique dealers and collectors living in genteel decay. When his landlord, one of Junktown's leading citizens, falls to his death, Qwill's famous whiskers begin to twitch.
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The Cat Who Said Cheese
The events at the Great Food Explo in Moose County are overshadowed by the arrival of a distracting and mysterious woman, and Qwill and his Siamese sidekicks investigate a fatal explosion at the New Pickax Hotel.
In Qwill's opinion, "A town without a bookstore is like a chicken with one leg," and since the late Eddington Smith's bookstore burned down, the town of Pickax has been somewhat off balance. To the rescue comes the Klingenschoen Foundation, manager of Qwill's estate, which considers a new bookstore a worthy investment. Delighted by their good fortune, the people of Moose County prepare to celebrate the gala groundbreaking of the store on the site of the old.
Jim Qwilleran, a newspaper columnist, visits Mooseville where a backpacker has recently disappeared. Qwill is determined to dispel the rumours that extraterrestrial beings may be responsible for the missing backpacker. Then Koko the Siamese cat leads Qwill to a dead body in the sand.
The Great Food Explo is scheduled to open in Pickax, introducing new restaurants, country inns and food speciality shops. But before it begins a bomb wrecks the hotel killing a housekeeper and causing extensive damage. Enter Qwill and his Siamese cats, who set about their detective work.