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Lilian Jackson Braun (born 1913) is an American writer, well-known for her light-hearted series of "The Cat Who..." mystery novels. The "Cat Who" books centre around the life of former newspaper reporter, James Qwilleran, and his two Siamese cats, KoKo and Yum Yum, in the fictitious small town of Pickax located in Moose County "400 miles north of everywhere." Although never formally stated in her books, the towns, counties and lifestyles described in the series are generally accepted to be modelled after Bad Axe, Michigan (located in the "Michigan Thumb") where Braun resided with her husband for many years until the mid 1980s. Many believe that the culture and history of the Upper peninsula of Michigan are represented in the series.

Lilian began her writing career as a teenager, contributing sports poetry for the Detroit News. She went on to write advertising copy for many of Detroit's department stores. For the 'Detroit Free Press' she worked as the "Good Living" editor for 30 years, retiring from that post in 1978.

Between 1966 and 1968, she published three novels to critical acclaim: The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern and The Cat Who Turned On and Off. In 1966, the New York Times labelled Braun, "the new detective of the year." The rising mystery writer then disappeared from the publishing scene for 18 years. Unlike Braun's light-hearted series, popular detective fiction had come to feature explicit sex, violence and foul language. In 1986, the Berkley Publishing Group reintroduced her work to a new generation of fans with the publication of an original paperback, The Cat Who Saw Red. Within two years, Berkley released four new novels in paperback and reprinted her first three from the sixties. Braun's series again rose to the top of best seller lists. The twenty-ninth novel in her series, The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers was released in hardcover 2007.

Little is known about Braun, who has been protective of her private life. Publishers long gave an incorrect year for her birth date, which remained unknown until she finally gave her true age during a 2005 interview with the Detroit News.

Like many writers of her generation, Braun, an admitted technophobe, continues to create her fiction on a typewriter. She currently resides in North Carolina with her husband, Earl Bettinger, and their two cats. Each of her books is dedicated to "Earl Bettinger the husband who..."

Available Books by Lilian Jackson Braun

	A Jim Qwilleran Feline Whodunnit: The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780755338559 RRP: $19.99 Welcome to Moose County, home of Lilian Jackson Braun's sleuthing cats, Koko and Yum Yum, in this, the 29th book in her critically acclaimed 'Cat Who...' mystery series. Moose County, four hundred miles north of everywhere, is in an uproar (good and bad) following vast inheritances from wealthy old families. Only 'Cool Koko' knows what's happening... and he's not tell...
	Cat Who Went Bananas Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780755321254 RRP: $19.99 The good people of Pickax are agog with anticipation. Not only is the new bookstore, The Pirate's Chest, about to open, but the Theatre Club is set to perform Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. The play does not continue past opening night, however, for a member of the cast is killed in a car accident . . . or was it an accident? Koko seems to suspect otherwise, and Qwill and ...
	A Jim Qwilleran Feline Whodunnit: The Cat Who Talked Turkey Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780755305278 RRP: $19.99 Jim Qwilleran - a prize-winning reporter and Moose County's richest resident has a nose for crime. Koko - a Siamese cat with extraordinary talents and a flair for mystery. Yum Yum - a lovable Siamese adored by her two male companions. The most unlikely, most unusual, most delightful team in detective fiction! The good people of Moose County are in a fever of excitement. Not only is the ga...
	A Jim Qwilleran Feline Whodunnit: The Cat Who Brought Down The House Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780755305254 RRP: $19.99 Jim Qwilleran - a prize-winning reporter and Moose County's richest resident has a nose for crime. Koko - a Siamese cat with extraordinary talents and a flair for mystery. Yum Yum - a lovable Siamese adored by her two male companions. The most unlikely, most unusual, most delightful team in detective fiction! The denizens of Pickax are starstruck: Thelma Thackeray, a native of Moose County...
	A Jim Qwilleran Feline Whodunnit: The Cat Who Went Up The Creek Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780747265061 RRP: $19.99 Jim Qwilleran - a prize-winning reporter and Moose County's richest resident has a nose for crime. Koko - a Siamese cat with extraordinary talents and a flair for mystery. Yum Yum - a lovable Siamese adored by her two male companions. The most unlikely, most unusual, most delightful team in detective fiction! Pickax's favourite columnist, James Qwilleran, is enjoying a brief holiday wi...
	A Jim Qwilleran Feline Whodunnit: The Cat Who Came To Breakfast Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780747245131 RRP: $19.99 Jim Qwilleran - a prize-winning reporter and Moose County's richest resident has a nose for crime. Koko - a Siamese cat with extraordinary talents and a flair for mystery. Yum Yum - a lovable Siamese adored by her two male companions. The most unlikely, most unusual, most delightful team in detective fiction! When Jim Qwilleran's friend Polly decides to spend two weeks on vacation with...
	A Jim Qwilleran Feline Whodunnit: The Cat Who Smelled A Rat Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780747265054 RRP: $19.99 Jim Qwilleran - a prize-winning reporter and Moose County's richest resident has a nose for crime. Koko - a Siamese cat with extraordinary talents and a flair for mystery. Yum Yum - a lovable Siamese adored by her two male companions. The most unlikely, most unusual, most delightful team in detective fiction! As autumn draws to a close in Moose County, four hundred miles north of everywher...
	A Jim Qwilleran Feline Whodunnit: The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780747250357 RRP: $19.99 Jim Qwilleran - a prize-winning reporter and Moose County's richest resident has a nose for crime. Koko - a Siamese cat with extraordinary talents and a flair for mystery. Yum Yum - a lovable Siamese adored by her two male companions. The most unlikely, most unusual, most delightful team in detective fiction! Jim Qwilleran is not exactly overwhelmed by his new assignment for the 'Daily...

	The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780515143959 RRP: $10.95 While Moose County is in an uproar over a string of lucrative inheritances, Polly departs for Paris, Koko the irrepressible Siamese meets a piano tuner, Qwill writes a play, and a mysterious bee sting-related death occurs....
	The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780515142419 RRP: $10.95 Koko's strange new hobby of dropping himself from balconies has landed him in the oddest of places--on the head of a young visitor whose wealthy relatives soon fall deathly ill, making Qwill have his work cut out for him....
	Two Cats, Three Tales Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780425207949 RRP: $20.95 An omnibus edition containing the first three Cat Who . . . mysteries in one volume features the adventures of reporter Jim Qwilleran and his sleuthing feline companions, Koko and Yum Yum, in The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern, and The Cat Who Turned On and Off, in which the trio investigates a murder in an antique shop. Original. 25,000 first printing....
	The Cat Who Went Bananas Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780515139785 RRP: $10.95 James Qwilleran and his talented team of feline sleuths, Koko and Yum Yum, investigate the supposedly accidental death of a cast member on the eve of the Theatre Club's performance of Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest." Reprint....
	The Cat Who Talked Turkey Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780515138757 RRP: $10.95 Delighted when the Klingenschoen Foundation, manager of Jim Qwilleran's estate, approves the construction of a new bookstore on the site where the late Eddington Smith's bookstore had burned down, the citizens of Moose County are stunned by a brutal murder during the gala groundbreaking, and it is up to Qwill and his feline sleuths, Koko and Yum Yum, to investigate. Reprint....
	The Cat Who Brought Down the House Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780515136555 RRP: $10.95 Reluctant millionaire and small town reporter Jim Qwilleran and his cats, Koko and Yum Yum, confront a new mystery when octogenarian Thelma Thackeray returns to Moose County to turn the old opera house into a film club....
	Short and Tall Tales Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780515136357 RRP: $9.95 Fictional columnist James Qwilleran presents a collection of stories that spotlights the colorful world of Moose County and its residents in such legends as "The Secret of the Blacksmith's Wife" and "The Trevelyan Curse." Reprint....
	The Cat Who Sniffed Glue Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780515099546 RRP: $10.95 Jim Qwillerman and his feline sleuthing companions search for a motive to the murder of Harley Fitch and his pregnant wife Belle in the isolated community of Picka...
	The Cat Who Had 14 Tales Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780515094978 RRP: $10.95 In this collection of feline detective fiction, a courageous Siamese catches a cunning cat burglar, a country kitty traps a violent murderer, and an intuitive feline finds a missing antiques dealer...
	The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780515087123 RRP: $10.95 Disgruntled about being assigned to do a series of interior design features, Jim Qwilleran finds himself back on the homicide beat when he and Koko, the Siamese cat, investigate a burglary and murder at an exclusive residence...
	The Cat Who Blew the Whistle Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780515118247 RRP: $10.95 Jim Qwilleran and his feline sleuths, Koko and Yum Yum, investigate the disappearance of a wealthy railroad buff--and alleged multimillion-dollar embezzler--a case that becomes complicated by red herrings, a tragic train wreck, and murder at a railroad tavern. Reprint....
	The Cat Who Came to Breakfast Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780515115642 RRP: $10.95 When a cabin cruiser mysteriously explodes in the marina of Breakfast Island, newspaper reporter Jim Qwilleran and his feline companions investigate shady happenings at the hot vacation spot...
	The Cat Who Could Read Backwards Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780515090178 RRP: $10.95 The first installment of the author's popular series features the unusual detective team of award-winning reporter Jim Qwilleran and Koko, his brilliant Siamese cat, who penetrate the world of modern art to solve a mystery....
	The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781594132421 RRP: $18.95 ...
	The Cat Who Knew a Cardinal Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780515107869 RRP: $10.95 When the director of the Pickax Theatre Club's Shakespeare production is found dead in Qwilleran's apple orchard, Qwilleran and his Siamese sleuths must discover which player staged the murder. Reprint. PW....
	The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780515095821 RRP: $10.95 Qwilleran and his feline friends believe that the accidental death of a local publisher is actually murder, but an amorous lady, a strangely merry widow, and a desperate stranger may stop them from ever learning the truth...
	The Cat Who Lived High Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780515105667 RRP: $10.95 Jim Qwilleran and his feline companions, Koko and Yum Yum, investigate the murder of Dianne Bessinger, the founder of an organization out to save an old apartment house, the Casablanca, from the real-estate developers who plan to tear it down...
	The Cat Who Moved a Mountain Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780515109504 RRP: $10.95 On vacation in the Big Potato Mountains, Qwilleran stumbles into a mystery involving the murder of J.J. Hawkinfield, the developer who was pushed off a mountain years before after announcing his plans to develop the region...
	The Cat Who Played Brahms Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780515090505 RRP: $10.95 With his cats Koko and Yum Yum, newspaperman Jim Qwilleran decides to take a vacation and becomes involved with murder...
	The Cat Who Played Post Office Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780515093209 RRP: $10.95 Reporter Jim Qwilleran and his clue-seeking Siamese cats, KoKo and Yum-Yum, receive an unexpected inheritance, move into the rich-and-famous circuit, and find their taste for the good life spoiled by a shocking murder...
	The Cat Who Robbed a Bank Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780515129946 RRP: $10.95 The residents of Pickax are thrilled to see the moldering Pickax Hotel restored and reopened under new ownership, but when one of the first guests turns up dead, the victim of foul play, Qwilleran and his snooping Siamese cats are soon prowling around for clues. Reprint....
	The Cat Who Said Cheese Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780515120271 RRP: $10.95 When a bombing wrecks a hotel, kills a housekeeper, and threatens to destroy the Great Food Expo, Qwilleran and his feline sleuths, Koko and Yum Yum, embark on a culinary quest to find a killer...
	The Cat Who Sang for the Birds Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780515124637 RRP: $10.95 The twentieth offering in the consistently popular mystery series brings columnist Jim Qwilleran and his two prized pussycat sleuths, Koko and Yum Yum, out from their apple barn and on the case of arson at a new art center. Reprint....
	The Cat Who Saw Red Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780515090161 RRP: $10.95 After moving into an old mansion whose previous owner committed suicide, prize-winning reporter Qwilleran and his two Siamese cats are disturbed by strange occurrences and start to investigate when Qwilleran's old girlfriend disappears...
	The Cat Who Saw Stars Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780515127393 RRP: $10.95 Quill struggles to dispel rumors circulating in Moose County that extraterrestrial beings are responsible for the disappearance of a stray backpacker, while his sleuthing Siamese companion, Koko, develops an interest in the night sky...
	The Cat Who Smelled a Rat Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780515132267 RRP: $10.95 Philanthropist James Qwilleran and his crime-solving cats, Koko and Yum Yum, investigate the murders of a volunteer fire-watcher and a local curling champ as a mysterious crime wave engulfs the town of Pickax. Reprint....
	The Cat Who Tailed a Thief Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780515122404 RRP: $10.95 The village of Pickax experiences a rash of petty thefts and the murder of a flashy newcomer, sending Qwilleran off on his own investigation into the crime wave, with feline sleuths Koko and Yum Yum sniffing for leads...
	The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780515102659 RRP: $10.95 Determined to discover what frightened his ex-housekeeper to death, detective Qwilleran and his two feline assistants move into the house to search for the offending spirits...
	The Cat Who Turned on and Off Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780515087949 RRP: $10.95 Reporter Jim Qwilleran teams up with the brilliant Siamese cat, Koko, and the adorable female Siamese, Yum Yum, to investigate Junktown, a haven for antique dealers and collectors, not the dope den Qwilleran anticipated...
	The Cat Who Wasn't There Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780515111279 RRP: $10.95 While attempting to solve a perplexing mystery in Scotland, prize-winning reporter Qwilleran relies on help from his two Siamese cats, back home in the U.S. Reprint....
	The Cat Who Went Bananas Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781594131073 RRP: $18.95 ...
	The Cat Who Went into the Closet Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780515113327 RRP: $10.95 While sifting through closets of junk in the mansion they have rented, Qwilleran and his feline companions, Koko and Yum Yum, uncover a mystery involving the suicide of the former owner and the murder of a potato farmer. Reprint....
	The Cat Who Went Underground Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780515101232 RRP: $10.95 Quill and his cats vacation in Mooseville, but when the carpenter he hires disappears, he begins to investigate what may be a serial killer's plan to wipe out the area's woodworkers...
	The Cat Who Went Up the Creek Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780515134384 RRP: $10.95 Koko, Yum Yum, and James Qwilleran embark on their latest mystery when gold prospectors, wildlife photographers, and pirates arrive at the Nutcracker Inn to take part in a game....
	The Private Life Of The Cat Who Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780515138320 RRP: $9.95 A collection of short tales about the intimate lives of the famous Siamese companions from the popular mystery series follows their exploits and unique characteristics as recorded by sleuth reporter Qwill. Reprint....

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	A Jim Qwilleran Feline Whodunnit: The Cat Who Robbed A Bank Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780747223429 ...
	A Jim Qwilleran Feline Whodunnit: The Cat Who Smelled A Rat Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780747270836 ...
	The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780755338542 Moose County, 400 miles north of everywhere, is in an uproar (good and bad) following vast inheritances from wealthy old families. Only 'Cool Koko' knows what's happening... and he's not telling. Jim Qwilleran thinks it's because he has more whiskers than ordinary cats, but who's counting? Meanwhile... Koko meets a piano tuner. Polly goes to Paris. Qwill writes a play (a...
	The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780786291144 ...
	The Private Life of the Cat Who Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780399151323 A collection of short tales about the intimate lives of the famous Siamese companions from the popular mystery series follows their exploits and unique characteristics as recorded by sleuth reporter Qwill. 200,000 first printing....

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