The Cat Who Could Read Backwards (The Cat Who… Mysteries #1)

by Lilian Jackson Braun

tonight she was charmingly relaxed as wives often are when their husbands are absent.

The artist has filled his remarkable picture frames with sailboats and other subjects that do not detract from the excellence of the moldings.’

‘Cats have many gifts that are denied humans, and yet we tend to rate them by human standards. To understand a cat, you must realize that he has his own gifts, his own viewpoint, even his own morality. A cat’s lack of speech does not make him a lower animal. Cats have a contempt of speech. Why should they talk when they can communicate without words? They manage very well among themselves, and they patiently try to make their thoughts known to humans. But in order to read a cat, you must be relaxed and receptive.’