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Times are changing in Pickax, and it all makes for some newsworthy notes for the "Qwill Pen." A new senior center is in the works, and a frisky production of Cats is set to delight Moose County residents, human and feline alike. Polly Duncan is off to Paris, momentarily leaving Qwill without a companion for his apple-barn concerts, and The Librarians Who Lunch are getting ready to put on a show of their spectacular Art Hats to help unite Pickax with...
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The residents of Pickax eagerly await the start of Pickax Now, a festival celebrating the 150th anniversary of the town's founding. In the midst of preparations for parades and performances, newspaper columnist James Qwilleran must make time to entertain Harvey Ledfield, an aspiring architect visiting from out of town. Qwill welcomes Harvey into his home to sketch, but strange occurrences seem to follow Harvey around. Why, for example, did the extraordinary...
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Cat Who mysteries volume 17
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The affluent owner of a historic steam locomotive and private railcar disappears with millions of dollars belonging to Moose county investors. Journalist-detective Jim Quill probes the embezzlement with the aid of his Siamese sleuths, Koko and Yum Yum. The case is complicated by a train wreck and a murder in a railroad tavern. By the author of The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, the book which launched the 17-volume series in 1966.
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Cat Who mysteries volume 20
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Putnam
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[1998]
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"It all began when someone spray-painted WITCH on the side of Widow Coggin's barn on Trevelyan Road. Then someone stole some sketches of nudes from Pickax's new Art Center across the way. A few scattered drops of blood on the floor near the cage of a resident parrot - a parrot who happens to have a penchant for talking dirty - indicate that the thief did not escape without a mark."--BOOK JACKET. "When a fire erupts on the Coggin farm, taking the life...
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Cat Who mysteries volume 23
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The big one is on it's way, and none too soon for the resdients of an unusually arid Moose County, who are becoming increasingly anxious about wildfires as they await for the first snowstorm of the season. A Citizen's Fire Watch is formed, and volunteers go out on shifts to patrol areas of concern, particularly
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Cat Who mysteries volume 13
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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[1992]
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A former reporter solves the murder of a developer with the help of a cat. An innocent man may have been framed.
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Cat Who mysteries volume 21
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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[1998]
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Qwill, Koko, and Yum Yum are looking forward to a quiet vacation relaxing on the porch of their cabin, but when a young backpacker is found dead in the woods and the locals believe that UFOs are responsible, the cats know that their relaxing break has been interrupted by a bizarre mystery.
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Cat Who mysteries volume 15
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[1993]
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First American edition.
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Qwill has decided to rent Gage mansion in Pickax for the winter. While preparing for a newscast on the devastating fire of 1869 that ravaged part of the mansion and most of the town, he and Koko uncover some interesting artifacts that lead them straight to Gage family secrets and murder. What do the former owner's apparent suicide and the murder of a potato farmer have in common? Koko knows, and the answer will surprise everyone.
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Cat Who mysteries volume 19
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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[1997]
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In Pickax, PI Jim Qwilleran and his feline assistants, Koko and Yum-Yum, investigate the death of a local banker who was mugged and shot while on a business trip in Detroit. By the author of The Cat Who Said Cheese.
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Cat Who mysteries volume 14
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Qwill is on the Bonnie Scots Tour traveling through the heathered hills of Scotland. His cats, Koko and Yum Yum, remain home in Pickax, Maine with a catsitter. When the tour leader mysteriously dies one night, Qwill and the rest of the tour group return home in confusion. Strangely, however, Koko seems to know that there was foul play on the trip!
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Cat Who volume 4, 5, 6
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Putnam
Pub. Date
1993.
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1st American ed.
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Three early novels of sleuthing Siamese cats KoKo and Yum Yum
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Putnam
Pub. Date
c2004
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During the groundbreaking of the new Pickax bookstore a body is found, and why does Quill's sage Siamese, Koko, keep insisting tht his human read him a book that Qwill can't stand? Then there is a sudden appearance of wild turkeys which haven't been present in Moose County for thirty years.
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Cat who volume 19
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New Millennium Audio
Pub. Date
p2003
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Unabridged.
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In this latest installment, prizewinning reporter Jim Qwilleran—along with his lovable Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum—solve a mystery that arises when a local banker dies under suspicious circumstances, leaving behind a flashy young widow, an unfinished house-restoration project, and a trail of clues as elusive as a cat burglar in the night
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