Lilian Jackson Braun

"Times are changing in Pickax, making for newsworthy notes for the 'Qwill Pen.' A new senior center is in the works and a production of CATS is set to delight the residents. Polly Duncan is off to Paris, leaving Qwill without a companion. The late Nathan Ledfield's mansion is being converted into a museum and his treasures are being sold to benefit needy children. The town is abuzz with excitement until a death from a bee sting leaves everyone but...

Jim Qwilleran investigates the murder of a Chicago jewelry dealer as Pickax's Scottish Games get underway.

Middle-aged journalist Qwill has just inherited an enormous fortune and is embarking on a getaway to the Big Potato Mountains.

Koko's strange new hobby of dropping himself from balconies has landed him in the oddest of places--on the head of a young visitor whose wealthy relatives soon fall deathly ill, leaving Qwill with his work cut out for him.

Jim Qwilleran and his two sleuthing companions, Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum, attempt to solve a series of murders that have rocked the town of Pickax.

When a suspicious accident claims the life of the local paper's eccentric publisher, reporter Qwilleran and his talented cats Koko and Yum Yum set out to discover what really happened.

After inheriting unexpected millions, reporter Jim Qwilleran and his crime-solving cats Koko and Yum Yum take up residence in a mansion and hire servants. When the maid disappears, Koko and Jim look for clues.

A bomb shatters Pickax City'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.