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The cat who lived high

When a glamorous art dealer is killed in Jim Qwilleran's high-rise, he and cats Koko and Yum Yum reach new heights of detection in this mystery in the Cat Who series. The colorful Casablanca apartment building is in danger of demolition-but not if Jim Qwilleran can help it. He's determined to restor...

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Main Author: Braun, Lilian Jackson (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Putnam, 1990.
Series:Braun, Lilian Jackson. The Cat Who ; 11.
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Qwilleran, Jim (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Journalists > United States > Fiction.
Cats > Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Cozy mysteries.
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Summary:When a glamorous art dealer is killed in Jim Qwilleran's high-rise, he and cats Koko and Yum Yum reach new heights of detection in this mystery in the Cat Who series. The colorful Casablanca apartment building is in danger of demolition-but not if Jim Qwilleran can help it. He's determined to restore the building to its original grandeur. So he moves in with Koko and Yum Yum-and discovers that the Casablanca is steeped in history...and mystery. In Qwill's very apartment, a glamorous art dealer met an untimely fate, and the veteran journalist and his crime-solving cats are about to reach new heights in detection as the evidence builds up...and the Casablanca threatens to crumble down around them!
Physical Description:239 pages ; 23 cm.
ISBN:9780515105667
051510566X
9780399135545
0399135545
Author Notes:Lilian Jackson Braun was born on June 20, 1913. After starting out as a copywriter for Detroit department stores, she worked for The Detroit Free Press for nearly 30 years. In the 1960s, her cat died in a fall from a 10th-floor window in Detroit. Neighbors later told her that someone pushed the cat. To work through her feelings, she wrote a short story based on the incident. The result was her first three novels, The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern, and The Cat Who Turned On and Off. After an 18-year break, she published The Cat Who Saw Red. During her lifetime, she wrote 29 titles in The Cat Who... series. She died on June 4, 2011 of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at the age of 97.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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