Autumn has arrived, and the citizens of Pickax find themselves amid a clamour of activity. In additition to the opening of its latest theatrical production, the town is celebrating the dedication of a new bookstore and park built in...
Cats
- Author:Braun, Lilian JacksonSummary:
- Author:Braun, Lilian JacksonSummary:
The people of Pickax are in a state of eager anticipation. The Pirate's Chest, the long-awaited new bookstore, is finally set to open, and the Theatre Club is preparing to perform Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest...
- Author:Braun, Lilian JacksonSummary:
"The good people of Moose County are in a fever of excitement. Not only is the gala groundbreaking for the new Pickax bookstore about to take place, but the town of Brrr is preparing to celebrate its bicentennial, and columnist...
- Author:Braun, Lilian JacksonSummary:
What Pickax, the town "400 miles north of everywhere," needs is a new bookstore. But just as Pickax prepares to celebrate the ground breaking for a new one, a body is discovered in a nearby wooded arie. Turning their...
- Author:BRAUN, Lilian JacksonSummary:
The residents of Pickax take pride in a town which has considerably less crime than the places "Down Below." However, this holiday season has seen a streak of small crimes. New in town is the bank manager, Willard Carmichael...
- Author:Braun, Lilian JacksonSummary:
Everyone is stymied when two of Pickax's most prominent citizens are found murdered in their home. But even more puzzling to Qwill is Koko's sudden and unaccountable attraction to rubber cement.
- Author:Braun, Lilian JacksonSummary:
October finds Moose Country, 400 miles north of everywhere, in the grips of a record-breadking drought. With the danger of a wildfire threatening the village of Pickax, the locals pray for the annual fall blizzard. But trouble comes...
- Author:Braun, Lilian JacksonSummary:
After a long drought, the citizans of Pickax are worried about wildfires. Their fears are soon realized. With a case of arson, the shooting of a volunteer fire-watcher and the murder of the president of the curling club, James Qwilleran...
- Author:Braun, Lilian JacksonSummary:
Journalist Jim Qwilleran and his Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum, investigate the disappearance of a backpacker near Lake Superior. By the author of The Cat Who Sang for the Birds.
- Author:Braun, Lilian JacksonSummary:
Qwilleran and his feline colleagues go to Moose Lake for a little R & R. The trio quickly find themselves looking into the disappearance of a backpacker and other unusual goings on.
- Author:Braun, Lilian JacksonSummary:
It's up to the philanthropic master sleuth and his clue-finding Siamese cats to unravel a mystery begining when the art center is broken into and an elderly woman dies in a suspicious fire.
- Author:Braun, Lilian JacksonSummary:
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...
- Author:Braun, Lilian JacksonSummary:
The residents of Pickax are delighted that the old bombed-out Pickax Hotel is reopening with a whole new look. Everyone is thrown into a topspin when one of the hotel's first guests winds up a victim of murder. Qwilleran and his...
- Author:Braun, Lilian JacksonSummary:
Jim Qwilleran with his two cats, Yum Yum and KoKo help to solve the mystery case behind the Casablanca apartment buildings.
- Author:Braun, Lilian JacksonSummary:
"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...
- Author:Braun, Lilian JacksonSummary:
With his companion Polly in Paris, Qwill keeps himself occupied by writing an absurdist play called "The Cat Who Got Elected Dog Catcher." Meanwhile, things are spicing up in Pickax. Huge inheritances from old families are...
- Author:Braun, Lilian JacksonSummary:
"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...
- Author:Braun, Lilian JacksonSummary:
Pickax is preparing for its sesquicentennial celebration, and in the midst of all the family reunions, the Siamese super-sleuth Koko smells trouble. One evening Koko pounces down on the head of the wealthy Ledfields' obnoxious...
- Author:BRAUN, Lilian JacksonSummary:
The development of a major resort complex at the southern end of Breakfast Island is causing a ruckus. Local residents, summer people and mainland fishermen are all hopping mad that the peace of their island retreat is being shattered....
- Author:Braun, Lilian JacksonSummary:
"The denizens of Pickax are starstruck: Thelma Thackeray, a native of Moose County, has returned to spend her declining years 400 miles north of everywhere, after a nearly six-decade-long career in Hollywood! And she doesn't...