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The residents of Pickax eagerly await the start of Pickax Now, a festival celebrating the 150th anniversary of the town's founding. In the midst of preparations for parades and performances, newspaper columnist James Qwilleran must make time to entertain Harvey Ledfield, an aspiring architect visiting from out of town. Qwill welcomes Harvey into his home to sketch, but strange occurrences seem to follow Harvey around. Why, for example, did the extraordinary...
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"A bombed-out hotel opens with a whole new look. One of the hotel's first guests, a jeweler is murdered. Qwilleran and his Siamese are willing to find the killer, But first they'll have to contend with a hijacked bookmobile, an attemped bank robbery . . . and a few of the cats' preoccupations".
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Times are changing in Pickax, and it all makes for some newsworthy notes for the "Qwill Pen." A new senior center is in the works, and a frisky production of Cats is set to delight Moose County residents, human and feline alike. Polly Duncan is off to Paris, momentarily leaving Qwill without a companion for his apple-barn concerts, and The Librarians Who Lunch are getting ready to put on a show of their spectacular Art Hats to help unite Pickax with...
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The big one is on it's way, and none too soon for the resdients of an unusually arid Moose County, who are becoming increasingly anxious about wildfires as they await for the first snowstorm of the season. A Citizen's Fire Watch is formed, and volunteers go out on shifts to patrol areas of concern, particularly
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When Mrs. Cobb heard unearthly noises in the antique-filled farmhouse, she called for help, but Jim Qwilleran didn't get there in time. It looked as if his kindly ex-housekeeper had been frightened to death--but by what or whom? Qwill moves in with Koko and Yum Yum, and they all put noses to the trail...
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Qwill is on the Bonnie Scots Tour traveling through the heathered hills of Scotland. His cats, Koko and Yum Yum, remain home in Pickax, Maine with a catsitter. When the tour leader mysteriously dies one night, Qwill and the rest of the tour group return home in confusion. Strangely, however, Koko seems to know that there was foul play on the trip!
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As a food exposition is about to open in Pickax City, a bomb shatters the town's hotel, killing a woman. Newspaper columnist Jim Qwilleran and his sleuthing Siamese cats, Yum Yum and Koko, take time off from tasting cheese to investigate. By the author of The Cat Who Blew the Whistle
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Qwill, Koko, and Yum Yum are looking forward to a quiet vacation relaxing on the porch of their cabin, but when a young backpacker is found dead in the woods and the locals believe that UFOs are responsible, the cats know that their relaxing break has been interrupted by a bizarre mystery.
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Qwill, inheritor of the great Klingenschoen fortune, is living in a mansion in Moose County. With a staff of three and a limousine, he is at a loss as to how to cope with it all. To make matters worse, Koko has become fond of knocking Qwill's pigskin edition of Hamlet to the floor.
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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.