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    <body><![CDATA[Jim Qwilleran, the sometime sports writer, police reporter, war correspondent, winner of publishers trophy and proud owner of a large pepper and salt moustache is starting over as art writer.  That's what the daily fluxion is offering and middle aged out of work reporters cannot be too choosy.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56834368">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Prize-winning reporter Jim Qwilleran's latest assignment is to cover the art beat for the Daily Fluxion. Sounds easy enough--unless your art beat includes a stabbing in an art gallery, vandalized paintings, and a fatal fall from a scaffolding! Reissue.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is not the first time I read this book, but it has been a long time.  I still enjoyed it though was slightly put off by some of the veiled references to lesbianism.  (Her name is Butchy and a character says something about how she's &quot;one of them&quot; or &quot;like that&quot;--I can't reme...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68907113">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It was really fun to delve back into early Qwilleran. This is the book where he meets Koko! I think it might even bee the first <u>Cat Who...</u> novel. And he gets his first job at the Fluxion on the art beat, and of course there's crime and wonderfulness. The plot was excellent as usual, but what I liked...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67432067">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Years ago my mother gave me about five of these mysteries, and I finally got around to reading this one, which is the first one in the seemingly inexhaustible &quot;The Cat Who&quot; series.  I really wanted to hate this book, mostly because anyone who shits out thirty-some-odd books in the same ser...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38349916">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The world of modern art is a mystery to many. But for Jim Qwilleran, it turns into a mystery of another sort when his assignment to the art beat for The Daily Fluxion leads down the path to murder. A stabbing in an art gallery, vandalized paintings, a fatal fall from a scaffolding--this is not at all what Qwilleran expects when he turns his reportorial talents to art. But Qwilleran and his newly found partner, Koko the brilliant Siamese, are back in their element--sniffing out clues and confounding criminals intent on mayhem and murder.  ]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first in the series originally written in 1968.  I enjoyed some of the unintended dating (typewriters, phone booths etc.)  Reporter Jim Qwilleran starts a new beat as a feature writer for an arts section of the local newspaper.  Murder soon happens in the art world and he becomes involved.  Alon...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57485456">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The world of modern art is a mystery to many. But for Jim Qwilleran, it turns into a mystery of another sort when his assignment to the art beat for The Daily Fluxion leads down the path to murder. A stabbing in an art gallery, vandalized paintings, a fatal fall from a scaffolding--this is not at all what Qwilleran expects when he turns his reportorial talents to art. But Qwilleran and his newly found partner, Koko the brilliant Siamese, are back in their element--sniffing out clues and confounding criminals intent on mayhem and murder.  ]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have read all but the most recent of this series, though it has been several years ago when I first started. I just finished rereading this one for this month's Meridian column on funny &quot;series&quot; and was reminded what I loved about it. Great characters, funny circumstances, nicely crafted...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45707469">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, it's a little hard for me to admit that I've actually read one of these, but I *did* read it to increase the number of bestsellers I've read so I can do the Readers' Advisory part of my job better. This is the first book in The Cat Who series by Lilian Jackson Braun and it's all right as far a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11450388">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have really enjoyed all of the &quot;Cat Who&quot; books. I've read most of them now. They are always clean and cozy, but great &quot;tails&quot; full of surprises. And of course - I love the cats.  All cats are lovable, but these cats solve mysteries! Great on Audio too.<br/><br/>(There has bee...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52588426">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I haven't read all of The Cat Who books but the ones I've read I found really enjoyable. If you're looking for a challenging read, keep looking, but if you want to be entertained with a good mystery--Lillian Jackson Braun delivers. My one recommendation is to never, ever read these books on an empty...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59040798">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[As always Lilian Jackson Braun manages to provide a book that is full of fun, with murder in the background that is solved in some way with the cats.<br/><br/>These books are light, easy to ready, very enjoyable due to the continuing story of many of the same characters.<br/><br/>We have in our ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77301047">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I used to work in a bookstore, and I remember wondering about these books. It turns out my wife is a fan and loaned me the first in the series. She told me she liked the way the author writes cats, and I have to agree that the cat seemed very real. The humans were much less fully realized overall, b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80244964">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book when I was in middle school. I remember really liking the book then.  I ended up reading quite a few books from this series.  I read one about 2 years ago, and it just wasn't the same. It didn't hold my attention as well as it used to. It's still a fun read if you are looking for so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53771131">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Quick read, but never a dull moment. Braun is able to tell a great mystery throughout, using great characters in a unique setting of the art reporting world. Staged in the fictional town of Pickax, Braun is able to create people and places that create a unique world for the book. I'm looking forward...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75697550">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My mother-in-law read all of these cat books, so I tried one. Though this one is a bit outdated for our times. (Hosts found it necessary to provide cigarettes in case guests wanted to smoke and newspapers still flourished.) Still, it was a good mystery that I only partially figured out mid-way throu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61922333">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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