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Said the Cat #1
"Thief!" Said the Cat
The first in a new series features Kiki, a fourteen-year-old redhead who makes dinner for her doctor mother, writes for the school newspaper, plays tennis, and still finds time to solve mysteries with help from her cat, Pumpkin.
Mass Market Paperback
First published May 1, 1992
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January 30, 2022
A very thin book obviously targeted to the younger audience.
I came across this book in my ever-increasing pile of “to-be-read” books and the cover caught my eye as it depicted a cat that looks very much like mine AND due to the fact that my cat has lately been pilfering items around the house. (The latest object of his thievery is a small, hand-held remote to a floor lamp in the living room, that is still missing!) So, out of curiosity I decided to try the book. It was engaging enough; a very fast read - a crime mystery - with a relatively simple plot. Although the cat in the story doesn’t speak or verbally express its thoughts it was apparently the more cerebral of the characters in the story. On a somewhat disturbing note, I found it appalling that the author has the titular cat “Pumpkin” to be a chocoholic. The book was published in 1992 and I certainly hope that the author has since become aware that chocolate is lethal to cats.
I came across this book in my ever-increasing pile of “to-be-read” books and the cover caught my eye as it depicted a cat that looks very much like mine AND due to the fact that my cat has lately been pilfering items around the house. (The latest object of his thievery is a small, hand-held remote to a floor lamp in the living room, that is still missing!) So, out of curiosity I decided to try the book. It was engaging enough; a very fast read - a crime mystery - with a relatively simple plot. Although the cat in the story doesn’t speak or verbally express its thoughts it was apparently the more cerebral of the characters in the story. On a somewhat disturbing note, I found it appalling that the author has the titular cat “Pumpkin” to be a chocoholic. The book was published in 1992 and I certainly hope that the author has since become aware that chocolate is lethal to cats.
October 14, 2023
" ... Niente accade per caso - sentenziò la signora Ostenbush - Sono certa che non si tratta di una mera coincidenza se tu, Kiki, hai scelto proprio il mio citofono, nè credo sia stato un caso se Zucca si è fermato davanti al mio appartamento. Gli animali hanno un istinto più sviluppato rispetto agli esseri umani. ... "
Niente di più vero nel caso del gatto Zucca, meraviglioso investigatore!
Niente di più vero nel caso del gatto Zucca, meraviglioso investigatore!
December 30, 2023
buena lectura para niños, fácil y rápida.
July 14, 2012
A peculiar children's story. I found much of it mildly irritating and tenuous, but I did very much enjoy the descriptions of one or two of the characters. The cat seemed rather...forced...and in places the plot felt tired, and the prose lacked the colour to compensate for this, but then again, as something to be read easily, aimed at an audience I'm squarely not, it is perhaps rather unfair of me to comment this way. It passed forty minutes, but I wouldn't seek out any more of these books.
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