The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern

Lilian Jackson Braun

Oct 1986 · Cat Who... Book 2 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

Jim Qwilleran and his cat Koko get a taste of trouble in the second mystery in the bestselling Cat Who series.

Jim Qwilleran isn’t exactly overwhelmed by his new assignment for the Daily Fluxion. Interior design has never been one of his specialties and now he’s supposed to turn out an entire magazine on the subject every week! But the first issue of Gracious Abodes is barely off the presses when Qwilleran finds himself back on more familiar territory—the exclusive residence featured on the cover has been burglarized and the lady of the house found dead.

Now Qwilleran and his brilliant Siamese cat, Koko, have their respective moustache and whiskers twitching. And when Koko starts pawing clues in the dictionary and sniffing designer furniture, Qwilleran finds himself doing a feature on a very clever murder...

Ratings and reviews

I read other titles a few years ago and decided to re-read them. I borrowed some I hadn't read from a friend and one was the 1st one in the series, in which Koko and Qwilleran first meet. Downloaded this one, the 2nd, in the series so that I could find out how Yum Yum joined them. I am looking forward to reading all the rest of the series, in order. Entertaining, especially to cat lovers. One can tell Ms. Braun understands cats - I laugh out loud at least once during each book at the antics she describes.

My favourite cozy series. She invented the genre. It just gets better and better after this book. A must for cat lovers, My beloved kitty, Feisty, died last year at 22 1/2 and this series ran from 1966 to 2007. Some old kitty, Koko was. Final three books of the 28 book series weren't as good. Understandable she was pushing 90 ! Read them all, I did.

It tied up several mysteries near the end..well worth buying and worth reading several times.

About the author

The history of Lilian Jackson Braun is perhaps as exciting and mysterious as her novels. Between 1966 and 1968, she published three novels to critical acclaim: The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern, and The Cat Who Turned On and Off.  In 1966, the New York Times labeled Braun, “the new detective of the year.” Then, for reasons unknown, the rising mystery author disappeared from the publishing scene. It wasn’t until 1986 that Berkley Publishing Group reintroduced Braun to the public with the publication of an original paperback, The Cat Who Saw Red. Within two years, Berkley released four new novels in paperback and reprinted the three mysteries from the sixties. Since then, G.P. Putnam’s Sons has published seventeen additional novels in the Cat Who series. Braun passed away in 2011.