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Catting Around In Crime Fiction

By Jake Hinkson

September 12, 2011

There are two kinds of mystery fans: those who like mysteries with cats, and those who do not. Being a hardboiled hard ass, I naturally fall into the second camp. I’d rather be mauled by a tiger that read about the feline adventures of Sam Spayed and his girlfriend Kitty O’Shaughnessy. And I don’t say…

The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun

Thanks for The Cat Who, Lilian Jackson Braun

By Crime HQ

June 8, 2011

Lilian Jackson Braun passed away this weekend, before her 98th birthday and before she could finish her 30th “Cat Who” mystery. For many years, she stopped writing the series, thinking that people weren’t interested anymore in gentler, less sexy, less violent stories, but she came back around, and her fans were very glad of it.…