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The Cat Who Killed Lilian Jackson Braun
The Cat Who Killed Lilian Jackson Braun

The Cat Who Killed Lilian Jackson Braun

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FICTION

221 Pages, 5 x 7

Formats: Trade Paper

Trade Paper, $12.95 (US $12.95) (CA $16.95)

Publication Date: June 2007

ISBN 9781597775410

Rights: WOR

Phoenix Books, Inc. (Jun 2007)

Available from local and national retailers throughout the US.
 

Overview

One of America's most beloved writers, Lilian Jackson Braun—author of twenty-four Cat Who... mysteries—becomes the subject of a mystery herself. In this spoof by one of her most ardent admirers, Braun’s beheaded body has been discovered in the men's room of a gay bar in Lower Manhattan. The police are baffled, and so it is up to Braun's eccentric writer friend, James Q. (Qafka), and his Siamese cats Ying-Ton and Poon-Tang to solve the ghastly mystery. Q.'s quest leads him on a hilarious, ribald chase that's a cross between a story by Lenny Bruce and Dashiell Hammett. Before it's done, we've encountered Pulitzer Prize-winning Philip Roth, a sex-starved suburban housewife, a mysterious Hollywood diary, Britney Spears, an ancient secret society, and two gifted cats whose trail of urine and hairballs leads Q. and his spunky undergraduate assistant to finally unravel the riddle of which cat killed Lilian Jackson Braun.

Author Biography

Robert Kaplow is a novelist and satirist, whose books include Who’s Killing the Great Writers of America?, Playland, and Me and Orson Welles.