Lilian Jackson Braun
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Pickax columnist Jim Qwilleran receives unexpected insights into the suspicious death of an out-of-town actor, and the theft of a rare book, while conducting research on Hibbard House,a historic guest residence whose latest visitor has provoked unusual behavior in Qwill's perceptive Siamese cat, Koko.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Pickax loves a big occasion. The Great Food Expo is about to begin, introducing new restaurants, country inns, food specialty shops and a new food page in the 'Moose County Something'. Lurking in the background is a killer determined to make this an event Pickac City will never forget. The Expo begins with a literal bang: a bomb wrecks the hotel, killing a housekeeper and causing extensive damage. Luckily for pIckax, Qwill is on the scene, his moustace...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The affluent owner of a historic steam locomotive and private railcar disappears with millions of dollars belonging to Moose county investors. Journalist-detective Jim Quill probes the embezzlement with the aid of his Siamese sleuths, Koko and Yum Yum. The case is complicated by a train wreck and a murder in a railroad tavern. By the author of The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, the book which launched the 17-volume series in 1966
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Qwill and his felines are hoping for a peaceful month at their lake-side cabin but when rumors begin to circulate that UFOs are responsible for the disappearance of a stray backpacker, discovered dead at the lake shore, Qwill finds it difficult to maintain a vacation mode.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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James Qwilleran and his famous felines, Koko and Yum Yum, are back for another mystery-solving stint in the beloved bestselling Cat Who . . . series. While the town of Pickax is swept up in its sesquicentennial celebrations, Koko has developed a strange new hobby: He drops himself from balconies, occasionally landing in the oddest of places. When a young man comes to visit his wealthy relatives, Koko plummets straight onto his head! Meanwhile, a...
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English
Description
There's been a rash of petty thievery in Pickax'ever since banker Willard Carmichael and his flashy young wife, Danielle, moved in. But now Willard's been killed in a mugging Down Below'or so it seems. Qwill's suspicious, especially when Willard's house-restoration project in Pickax falls into the hands of Danielle's cousin'whose rich new wife then dies on her honeymoon! The clues are confounding. But with Koko's help, Qwill intends to catch a thief'and...