num_pages: 240
description: Newspaperman, philanthropist and sleuth Jim Qwilleran leads a busy life in tiny Pickax City (pop. 3,000), but it is his prescient cats who beguile the reader in this lively mystery, the 16th in the Cat Who. . . series. Qwilleran is renting a huge but empty mansion from Junior Goodwinter, his managing editor, who inherited the white elephant from his feisty 88-year-old grandmother Euphonia Gage when she went to live in a Florida retirement community. When Euphonia is found dead, apparently a suicide, Junior is perplexed. He is still more confounded when her new will suggests that Grandma has gambled away her millions at the racetrack. The death of a local man whose wife was Euphonia's housekeeper raises the suspicions of the already skeptical Qwilleran. He sets up a sting operation with a lively Florida retiree, but his two best operatives are his Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum. Qwilleran, who can be gloomy, peevish, vain and demanding, is never dull. Other industrious inhabitants of Pickax City (an editor, a waitress, a dog trainer) are comparably unique and have enough sharp edges to avoid being cute. Of course, the cats get all the best lines. Mystery Guild selection.Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
language: English
title: The Cat Who Went into the Closet
titlecomplete: The Cat Who Went into the Closet (Cat Who..., #15)
characters: Koko, Yum Yum, Jim Qwilleran
genres: Crime, Animals, Detective, Cozy Mystery, Humor, Cats, Fiction, Audiobook, Mystery, Mystery Thriller
ratings_count: 7241
places: Pickax City, Moose County
series: The Cat Who...
publisher: Headline