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The Cat Who... Series	comment	The Cat Who... series consists of a number of murder mysteries written by Lilian Jackson Braun, starring veteran crime journalist Jim Qwilleran (Yes, that's how it's spelled) and the two Siamese cats he adopts, Kao K'o Kung (abbreviated to Koko) and Yum Yum. The series begins with his life in an unnamed city as he is given assignments on odd beats, such as art or food criticism, and uncovers murders. Being what he is at heart, Qwill can never leave well enough alone once his mustache starts twitching....In the fifth book, though, the series moves away from the city and into the northern part of America, into an area known as Moose County. Initially, he's visiting for a vacation, but things take a turn for the worse when his "aunt" Fanny Klingenschoen is the Body of the Week. He then, after solving the crime, inherits her money, with the provision that he live in Moose County for five years (a period which officially ends at the start of book 13).The series began in the late 1960s, but after three books, there was an 18-year break before any more titles were published. The break ended when Braun's second husband Earl Bettinger, whom she married well after she wrote the first books, read them and encouraged her to give it another try. Since then, future books in the series have been dedicated to "Earl Bettinger, The Husband Who..." The final book in the series, The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers, was published in 2007. Another installment, The Cat Who Smelled Smoke, was scheduled for 2008 and later 2009, but then canceled by the publisher. Born in 1913, author Lilian Jackson Braun was nearly 100 years old and her advanced age prevented her from completing the book. She passed away in 2011, leaving the series unfinished.See also Midnight Louie, a series by Carole Nelson Douglas that draws much influence from this one, featuring a hard-boiled feline private eye as a first-person narrator at times. Not to be remotely confused with The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, an entirely different sort of book by Robert A. Heinlein.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_112890b3	type	Secret Identity
The Cat Who... Series / int_112890b3	comment	Secret Identity: A mundane example. Qwill adopts the moniker of "Ronald Frobnitz" when he wants to hide his involvement in some philanthropic effort, such as making a bid in a silent auction on a horrible piece of art that no one else wants.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_1181a575	type	The Unsolved Mystery
The Cat Who... Series / int_1181a575	comment	The Unsolved Mystery: All three major mysteries in the book fall under this. The cause of the two major fires in the book — the Old Hulk (which was being renovated into a senior center) and Qwill's barn — is never discovered. The thieves who stole Nathan Ledfield's treasures from the museum that was to house them are never caught. Libby Simms, who dies of a bee sting, is confirmed to have died of foul play when it's found someone stole her kit to counteract bee venom — but just who did so is never identified.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
The Cat Who... Series / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Being beloved by the readers will not save a character from dying. Sometimes they're murdered, but there are also fatal car accidents (Liz Hart in book #28, during a storm), heart attacks (Eddington Smith in book #23), and just plain old age (Homer Tibbet in book #28, who dies in his sleep).
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The Cat Who... Series / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
The Cat Who... Series / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: An in-universe sort of variant. Qwill is frequently mentioned by other characters as bearing a strong resemblance to Mark Twain.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_1561fbc4	type	Mystery Magnet
The Cat Who... Series / int_1561fbc4	comment	Mystery Magnet: James Qwilleran encounters murders and other various crimes with alarming frequency, even as the newspaper he works for often sends him out to do innocuous fluff pieces on things like a food expo, art exhibits, and the like. Lampshaded when one of the characters comments that he cannot remember any dead bodies before Qwilleran came to town.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_15929a2d	type	Man in a Kilt
The Cat Who... Series / int_15929a2d	comment	Man in a Kilt: Probably inevitable, given the Scottish history that was built for Qwilleran's character. Despite this, he resists for a long time, but eventually buys one in a moment of weakness after getting a scare regarding Polly Duncan's health in book 17 (The Cat Who Blew the Whistle) and formally debuts it in book 19 (The Cat Who Tailed a Thief).
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The Cat Who... Series / int_15aa2b3c	type	The Confidant
The Cat Who... Series / int_15aa2b3c	comment	The Confidant: Qwill. His folksy, down-to-Earth style generally causes even the most reluctant interview subjects to open to him, allowing him to delve deep into historical research with elderly figures who otherwise might clam up. It also comes in useful when it comes to possible suspects in the murder investigations he inevitably finds himself involved in.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
The Cat Who... Series / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Homer Tibbett, the nonagenarian expert on local history.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_182f59f9	type	On One Condition
The Cat Who... Series / int_182f59f9	comment	On One Condition: When his Aunt Fanny dies, Qwill finds he can only inherit the Klingenschoen money if he remains a resident of Moose County for five years. The next book clarifies that leaving sooner than that would mean that the money would be turned over to a syndicate in New Jersey. "Leaving" also includes his death, which makes him a potential target. When he makes it to the five-year benchmark in book 13, he throws a celebration.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_186c2c62	type	Diet Episode
The Cat Who... Series / int_186c2c62	comment	Diet Episode: This book is one for Qwill, which includes cutting back on rich foods and having to eat a banana every day. He doesn't do too well at sticking to it though.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_1bb7211b	type	The Hyena
The Cat Who... Series / int_1bb7211b	comment	The Hyena: Book 15 (The Cat Who Went Into the Closet) Celia Robinson, who has a loud, musical laugh and will crack up even at Qwilleran's mildest quips. In book 17 (The Cat Who Blew the Whistle), Qwilleran introduces to her the idea of "fine-tuning" her laugh.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_1cf11f13	type	No Sympathy
The Cat Who... Series / int_1cf11f13	comment	No Sympathy: Dennis Hough's wife feels none whatsoever when she learns her husband (whom she was planning on divorcing) just killed himself out of grief over her rejecting him, and tells the police officer on the phone that she wants nothing to do with him, alive or dead.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_1d029135	type	Fictional Document
The Cat Who... Series / int_1d029135	comment	Fictional Document: The Moose County Something and its predecessor, the Pickax Picayune; also City of Brotherly Crime, the book Qwill wrote when he was younger.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
The Cat Who... Series / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: Jealousy is described as Polly Duncan's primary flaw. Once Qwilleran starts dating her, he is wholly committed to her. This doesn't stop Polly, however, from being jealous of very nearly any other woman whom he spends time with, or who expresses an interest in him. (It also doesn't stop her from occasionally going out with other men.)
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The Cat Who... Series / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
The Cat Who... Series / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Qwill's cats are as dear to him as any children, and messing with them is a guarantee that he'll come down on the perpetrator like a ton of bricks. Especially notable in The Cat Who Wasn't There, when he races to rescue Yum Yum from someone who's kidnapped her and is holding her for ransom.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_21c05222	type	Long-Runners
The Cat Who... Series / int_21c05222	comment	Long-Runners: The series has nearly 30 books, plus a handful of side volumes.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_2317bc85	type	Tampering with Food and Drink
The Cat Who... Series / int_2317bc85	comment	Tampering with Food and Drink: Lynette Duncan is murdered when arsenic is slipped into her food by her new husband while on her honeymoon.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_23c68854	type	Mall Santa
The Cat Who... Series / int_23c68854	comment	Mall Santa: Qwilleran is drafted into being the Santa Claus of the small town of Pickax. He takes things fairly well, but panics when he learns that he's not done because he's still required to do lap-sitting.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_2534ee67	type	In Medias Res
The Cat Who... Series / int_2534ee67	comment	In Medias Res: The Cat Who Played Post Office, in which Qwilleran moves to Moose County, opens with a scene in which Qwilleran awakes in a hospital following a bad bicycle wreck with a case of Easy Amnesia that is quickly resolved. Most of the remainder of the book depicts the events that eventually led up to this.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_255dcf0f	type	Cozy Mystery
The Cat Who... Series / int_255dcf0f	comment	Cozy Mystery: After four books set in the city, the rest developed into Cozies, as Qwill remains an amateur sleuth but moves into a small town where everybody knows everybody else. Even the first four books could really be said to fit the bill, as they were only slightly edgier and still met the definition of "with no graphic violence, profanity, or explicit sex."
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The Cat Who... Series / int_26d1f65f	type	Verbal Tic
The Cat Who... Series / int_26d1f65f	comment	Verbal Tic: Grace Utley has a habit of periodically ending her sentences in "... yes!".
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The Cat Who... Series / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
The Cat Who... Series / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Qwill's father Dana Qwilleran, whom Qwill never met; he died before Qwill was born because he was shot while trying to rob a bank out of desperation. It's not until book 22 (The Cat Who Robbed a Bank) that Qwill even learns his name through letters his mother sent to Francesca Klingenschoen, and is rather furious when he discovers the truth about the man's fate.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_292dac7e	type	Sesquipedalian Smith
The Cat Who... Series / int_292dac7e	comment	Sesquipedalian Smith: Eddington Smith, the soft-spoken bookstore owner.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
The Cat Who... Series / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Qwill and Polly always end their phone conversations with "Ã bientÃ´t".
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The Cat Who... Series / int_2b88a383	type	Grave Humor
The Cat Who... Series / int_2b88a383	comment	Grave Humor: In book 20 (The Cat Who Sang for the Birds), Qwilleran goes exploring in a cemetery with a knowledgeable local and discovers a number of gravestones that have this. Among these is one described as "the ultimate his and hers". One reads "Shot by her dear husband", and the other next to it announces that he was "Hanged for killing his dear wife".
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The Cat Who... Series / int_2d363f63	type	Frame-Up
The Cat Who... Series / int_2d363f63	comment	Frame-Up: Part of the plot involves a string of thefts, the work of a kleptomaniac, in December. Most of the stolen goods turn up in Lenny Inchpot's locker, which Qwill finds suspicious; by the end of the book, he's vindicated when it's proven that someone involved with the real thief had stashed them there as a frame job.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_2d717e11	type	Suicide, Not Murder
The Cat Who... Series / int_2d717e11	comment	Suicide, Not Murder: The Cat Who Played Post Office has one of the people involved in a murder plot send Qwill a letter describing the plot and saying that she fears her partners will try to kill her and make it look like an accident or a suicide. Actually it was a genuine suicide. She killed herself because her brother rejected her to marry another woman, and the letter was her way of getting revenge on him.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_309edee6	type	Divorce Assets Conflict
The Cat Who... Series / int_309edee6	comment	Divorce Assets Conflict: Overlaps with Kick the Dog. Arch Riker, Qwill's lifelong best friend, is mentioned to be fond of antique tin, and at one time had a sizable collection. Book 23 (The Cat Who Smelled a Rat) reveals that his first wife managed to get it in their divorce settlement and promptly opened her own shop — "Tin 'n Stuff" — to sell it.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_31cc44aa	type	Odd Name, Normal Nickname
The Cat Who... Series / int_31cc44aa	comment	Odd Name, Normal Nickname: Qwill's librarian girlfriend is Polly Duncan. Very few people know that Polly's father was such a Shakespeare devotee that all of his children were named after characters from the plays, and Polly's real first name is actually Hippolyta.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_322f6b34	type	Angsty Surviving Twin
The Cat Who... Series / int_322f6b34	comment	Angsty Surviving Twin: The book features David Fitch, who has to deal with not only the murder of his twin brother Harley and Harley's wife, but also their mother's fatal stroke and their father's suicide, both indirectly caused by the murder. His friends are all worried he may follow his father's example. Subverted when we find out that David was Dead All Along and the surviving twin is actually Harley, who killed David in order to take his place. He was having an affair with David's wife. The parents' stroke and suicide were caused by the fact that they figured out the truth, and couldn't live with it.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_3437ee2c	type	Inheritance Murder
The Cat Who... Series / int_3437ee2c	comment	Inheritance Murder: Harvey Ledfield slips mold into the air vents of his aunt and uncle's home, triggering respiratory illnesses that eventually kill them, all to ensure he'll get their money to invest in a ski lodge he's wanting to fund. It comes out afterward that he wouldn't have gotten anything, as all their money goes to charitable groups.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_34e15b76	type	Kindhearted Cat Lover
The Cat Who... Series / int_34e15b76	comment	Kindhearted Cat Lover: Qwilleran, as well as many of the other cast members. The author counts as well.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_3577923b	type	Murder by Mistake
The Cat Who... Series / int_3577923b	comment	Murder by Mistake: During the trip to Scotland, Irma Hasselrich dies suddenly. It's later revealed that the killer was trying to murder Polly Duncan by substituting her vitamin pills with poisoned capsules. Polly, who'd stopped taking the vitamins in question, gave them to Irma instead, resulting in her death.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_37005c4a	type	I Am Not Weasel
The Cat Who... Series / int_37005c4a	comment	I Am Not Weasel: Eddie Trevelyan, who's working on Polly Duncan's house in this book, refers to Koko as a weasel a couple of times. There are also a couple other instances in which Koko and Yum Yum are mistaken for animals other than cats, due to the somewhat unusual appearance of Siamese in comparison with the types of cats people are used to, particularly at a distance.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_370aad9	type	Split Personality
The Cat Who... Series / int_370aad9	comment	Split Personality: The killer in the book turns out to have a murderous second personality, "Louise", who actually committed the killings and was brought on by years of sexual abuse at the hands of her father.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_373e2b9f	type	Murder the Hypotenuse
The Cat Who... Series / int_373e2b9f	comment	Murder the Hypotenuse: Melinda Goodwinter tries this after she becomes convinced that Polly Duncan is the only thing standing between her and marrying into the Klingenschoen fortune. This is despite the fact that (a) she knows that Qwill has given away pretty much all his money to the K Foundation, and (b) she knows Qwill is not inclined to marry anyone. Of course, rationality isn't exactly her strong point by the time she tries this.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
The Cat Who... Series / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Possibly the reason why Koko and Yum Yum hid from Pollyâ€™s sister-in-law the second time she came to feed them while Qwilleran and Polly attended the wedding of Arch Riker and Mildred Hanstable; by that time, one of the three villains had come with a dealer to strip lighting fixtures from the Gage mansion, but the dealer got stuck in the elevator when the power went out due to a snowstorm. Koko could have convinced Yum Yum to hide with him because he believed that once Qwill was told that the cats were missing, heâ€™d come back as fast as possible. Given that Qwill was a Papa Wolf to his cats, it worked.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
The Cat Who... Series / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Something took place prior to the start of the series which caused Qwill to lose everything he ever owned, including any photographs he ever had of his mother. Exactly what it was never gets completely revealed, although his disastrous marriage and bout of alcoholism are at least tangentially connected; book 22 suggests a fire was involved.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_3eb0f889	type	Pun-Based Title
The Cat Who... Series / int_3eb0f889	comment	Pun-Based Title: The Moose County Something. When Qwill purchases the local paper after its previous owner's death, he and the staff give it this placeholder title and hold a county-wide vote for a new name. But it turns out that the majority of the residents actually like calling it the Something, and it sticks.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_3ec18c6f	type	Sherlock Scan
The Cat Who... Series / int_3ec18c6f	comment	Sherlock Scan: Jim Qwilleran does this on occasion, most notably in The Cat Who Moved a Mountain; after hearing a single sentence from Dolly Lessmore on the telephone, he conceives a notion of her as "rather short and stocky, with a towering hair-do, a taste for bright colors, a three-pack-a-day habit, and a pocketful of breath mints." Upon seeing the sign in her office that reads "THANKS FOR NOT SMOKING" — the only deviation from this conception — he asks her when she stopped smoking and floors her.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_3fe2b13f	type	Ungrateful Bastard
The Cat Who... Series / int_3fe2b13f	comment	Ungrateful Bastard: Dennis Hough's wife. He spends months working on an out-of-town, well-paying renovation job to support his family, and she responds by telling him not to come home because she's divorcing him and marrying someone who can be physically present for their son, resulting in Dennis taking his own life.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Fanny Klingenschoen told many of them, but the biggest would have to be the various fibs she told about how to get into her will (e.g. she would leave money to anyone who was named after her). When she dies and leaves everything to Qwill, the locals are rather understandably angry until the next book, where he sets up the foundation that disperses the money.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_42c9a131	type	Appeal to Worse Problems
The Cat Who... Series / int_42c9a131	comment	Appeal to Worse Problems: When Qwill offers the cats some ground lamb, Koko and Yum Yum turn up their noses at it. Qwill responds by scolding them, saying "There are disadvantaged cats out there who don't know where their next mouse is coming from!" It makes no difference whatsoever.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_44109de3	type	Cat Stereotype
The Cat Who... Series / int_44109de3	comment	Cat Stereotype: The Siamese stereotype of being mean is subverted with Koko; like real life Siamese, he tends to be bright, friendly, inquisitive, and mouthy.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_45cd286c	type	Corrupt Politician
The Cat Who... Series / int_45cd286c	comment	Corrupt Politician: Gregory Blythe, the mayor of Pickax, mockingly referred to as "Hizzonor" for most of the series. He's eventually voted out as a result of the events of book #23 (The Cat Who Smelled a Rat), which saw him arrested for his involvement in a Ponzi scheme, and replaced with Amanda Goodwinter, the local Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_477bcc9f	type	Greasy Spoon
The Cat Who... Series / int_477bcc9f	comment	Greasy Spoon: Lois's Luncheonette is outright described as this in the narrative.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_48d94bb8	type	Creator Backlash
The Cat Who... Series / int_48d94bb8	comment	Creator Backlash: Discussed in-universe, late in the book, when Qwill, Polly, Arch and Mildred are talking and Qwill brings up Gelett Burgess, then recites the man's retaliatory poem saying how much he was annoyed by the popularity of his fluff 1895 poem "The Purple Cow".
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The Cat Who... Series / int_4d422f71	type	Throw It In!
The Cat Who... Series / int_4d422f71	comment	Throw It In!: In-Universe example with the town of Brrr, long noted as the coldest spot in the county. It's explained in book #24 (The Cat Who Went Up the Creek) and book #28 (The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell) that the name was originally the result of a sign writer's slip-of-the-brush, misspelling "Burr" as "Brrr", but it was kept both for the aforementioned reasoning and because the townsfolk thought the mistake was funny.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
The Cat Who... Series / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: During the climactic showdown, the killer attacks Qwill with a plaster replica of a camel's thigh bone (thinking it was a real one). Qwill defends himself with the nearest convenient object — an old bugle.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
The Cat Who... Series / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The first three books in the series were written in The '60s, and then nothing else was done with it until almost 20 years after the publication of the third book. Those who were introduced to the series via the later novels may find the originals somewhat odd; the books were written to be contemporary, meaning that overnight Qwill jumped from 1968 to 1986. The first three books contain, for instance, 1960s slang terms which may be a bit jarring to a modern reader.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_4f6d87f7	type	Huge Guy, Tiny Girl
The Cat Who... Series / int_4f6d87f7	comment	Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Liz Hart and her boyfriend Derek Cuttlebrink are described this way. However, Liz is a woman of ordinary proportions and only appears tiny next to Derek, who is literally seven feet tall.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_4fb23aa8	type	I Have This Friend
The Cat Who... Series / int_4fb23aa8	comment	I Have This Friend: Late in the book, Celia Robinson O'Dell's assistant Nora comes to Qwill and tells him the story of a person named Betsy, who'd had a child out of wedlock and left him where he would be found and taken in by another family, but eventually he grew up to kill his own father. Qwill easily figures out that "Betsy" is really Nora herself, and her son is John "Boze" Campbell, the murderer of Mr. Delacamp.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_50b1855d	type	Spy Fiction
The Cat Who... Series / int_50b1855d	comment	Spy Fiction: Played with using the Celia Robinson character, who is introduced in book #15 (The Cat Who Went Into the Closet) and does missions for Qwilleran ("The Chief") as his "Secret Agent 13 1/2".
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The Cat Who... Series / int_50c58a13	type	Exit, Pursued by a Bear
The Cat Who... Series / int_50c58a13	comment	Exit, Pursued by a Bear: In this book, an abusive ex-husband tracks his ex-wife to Moose County, using the fact that back in the navy he saved a shipmate's life (said shipmate still suffered brain damage) as leverage to coerce the local, now a beekeeper, into becoming an accessory to the bombing of said frightened ex's hotel room. When he comes back to try and cover his tracks and finish the job — the intended target was out and about but someone else died — the beekeeper inadvertently gives him a wool blanket and the bees swarm the murderer, who is found dead the next morning.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_52488c54	type	Drowning My Sorrows
The Cat Who... Series / int_52488c54	comment	Drowning My Sorrows: Qwill, prior to the start of the series, although he has sworn off alcohol by the time the first book begins.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_52ae74d	type	Undercover Cop Reveal
The Cat Who... Series / int_52ae74d	comment	Undercover Cop Reveal: The last chapter casually reveals that Hollis Prantz, one of the Junktown dealers, is actually an undercover officer from Narcotics and was investigating a heroin ring in the area.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_53027509	type	Long-Runner Tech Marches On
The Cat Who... Series / int_53027509	comment	Long-Runner Tech Marches On: In the early books, Qwill has a clunky manual typewriter that he refuses to replace with an electric one. In the later ones he has a clunky electric typewriter that he refuses to replace with a word processor. It's still claimed to be the machine he used his entire journalistic career.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_53b84f6d	type	Proscenium Reveal
The Cat Who... Series / int_53b84f6d	comment	Proscenium Reveal: The opening pages of the book start with a radio announcer at his newsdesk, reporting on a major forest fire destroying towns in the area, and finally that the town of Pickax itself, where he is, is in flames, just before getting to his feet and rushing out of the room... and then everything goes dark, just before we hear the audience talking about it — the "radio announcer" was Qwill, doing a one-man stage show based on a massive forest fire that destroyed much of Moose County over a hundred years before.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_540eb459	type	The Killer Becomes the Killed
The Cat Who... Series / int_540eb459	comment	The Killer Becomes the Killed: Richard "Dick" Thackeray, the villain of the book, is shot dead by his own aunt after she realizes he murdered his own father and was guilty of other crimes too.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_5501256b	type	Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated
The Cat Who... Series / int_5501256b	comment	Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: Literally, in The Cat Who Lived High, when the vacationing Qwill's car is stolen and the driver turns up dead. The local law enforcement where the car is found, who don't know Qwill, assume the dead man is the owner of the car and issue an incorrect report. While most of Moose County is thrown into deep mourning, Arch goes to where Qwill is staying to get the cats — and almost has a heart attack when he finds Qwill alive and sort of well, having just fought off an attempt on his life.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_569a95e9	type	The Teetotaler
The Cat Who... Series / int_569a95e9	comment	The Teetotaler: After putting his life back together prior to the events of book 1, Qwill has sworn off alcohol of any type, though he doesn't have any problem serving it to others.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
The Cat Who... Series / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: Results in the death of the second victim, who fled to escape it, along with evidence that her boyfriend was up to something else dirty. But when she returned to retrieve her personal belongings, he was waiting there and killed her.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_59196f87	type	Baby Talk
The Cat Who... Series / int_59196f87	comment	Baby Talk: Polly tends to talk this way to her new cat Bootsie (who is introduced in this book), much to the chagrin of Qwilleran, who treats his Siamese as sophisticated and intelligent.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
The Cat Who... Series / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: The last chapters of the book reveal that the book's killer had been hiding out in the shafthouse of a long defunct mine. When his friend and Qwill go to try and find him, they accidentally startle him so he falls to his death in the shaft.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_5bddf95f	type	Talk About the Weather
The Cat Who... Series / int_5bddf95f	comment	Talk About the Weather: In Moose County, it is generally customary to spend a minute or two talking about the weather before moving on to more serious subjects. This is just considered simple politeness, even with two people who know each other quite well.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_5d3d67d9	type	Gender Scoff
The Cat Who... Series / int_5d3d67d9	comment	Gender Scoff: The lead character James Mackintosh Qwilleran extends this to a species scoff, shouting "Cats!" when his Siamese Koko or Yum Yum behave in ways that frustrate him.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_5e111c91	type	Uncle Pennybags
The Cat Who... Series / int_5e111c91	comment	Uncle Pennybags: When James Qwilleran inherits a couple billion dollars from his mother's best friend in book 5 (The Cat Who Played Brahms), he doesn't have the slightest idea what to do with it. So he sets up a philanthropic fund to assist with various endeavors around the community of Pickax, buys and revamps the dying local newspaper (and recruits his childhood best friend to be its editor), and gets involved with assorted charity activities and events. This generosity, coupled with his likable disposition, quickly endears him to his neighbors and he becomes one of the most beloved figures in the area.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_5f4c3290	type	Skeptic No Longer
The Cat Who... Series / int_5f4c3290	comment	Skeptic No Longer: Qwill's always been skeptical of the idea UFOs, but the climax of the book sees him becoming a believer, not that he'll ever admit it to anyone else. Namely, when he sees an alien craft land and the creatures that come out of it, which Koko goes to greet, are... little green cats.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_6065ea75	type	Does Not Drive
The Cat Who... Series / int_6065ea75	comment	Does Not Drive: Alicia "Lish" Carroll, who has her own driver because a heart condition makes it unsafe for her to drive. Naturally, when she steals a car and tries to drive it near the end of the book, she gets into a fatal traffic accident.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
The Cat Who... Series / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: If Koko doesn't fit this trope in cat form, then who would? Qwill himself also has several characteristics of the trope.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
The Cat Who... Series / int_65acf9db	comment	He Knows Too Much: One of the victims in the book is a nature photographer who found signs of illegal tree and gold prospecting in the Black Forest Conservancy, and is shot to prevent him from telling anyone.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
The Cat Who... Series / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: Lilian Jackson Braun loved cats, and owned her own set of Siamese — who were always named Koko and Yum Yum.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
The Cat Who... Series / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: Qwilleran could represent Lilian Jackson Braun herself to a large degree. Like Qwilleran, she had no children, and enjoyed living a simple life without much public attention, despite her wealth and accomplishments. That, and the fact that both live(d) with Siamese cats.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
The Cat Who... Series / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: Qwill adored his mother, Anne Mackintosh Qwilleran, who died prior to the beginning of the series. She raised him as a single parent, since his father died while she was pregnant with Qwill.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_67e84a8e	type	Wild Mass Guessing
The Cat Who... Series / int_67e84a8e	comment	Wild Mass Guessing: In-Universe, Polly, the protagonist's librarian girlfriend, has a theory that Elizabeth I is secretly the true author of all of Shakespeare's works, using a pseudonym.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_67fedd35	type	Bizarrchitecture
The Cat Who... Series / int_67fedd35	comment	Bizarrchitecture: To an extent, Qwill's summer home is this; it's a converted apple barn on the Klingenschoen property, which many characters compare with the Guggenheim Museum.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_683bb900	type	Last Disrespects
The Cat Who... Series / int_683bb900	comment	Last Disrespects: The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts frequently refers to the funeral of Ephraim Goodwinter, who had a record number of mourners accompanying the funeral procession; but the vast majority were there to celebrate his death, since Ephraim was one of the most hated men in town after indirectly causing the deaths of 42 miners. (See Meaningful Funeral, below.)
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The Cat Who... Series / int_6a3c49f	type	Direct Line to the Author
The Cat Who... Series / int_6a3c49f	comment	Direct Line to the Author: Book #28 is the first and only book in the main series to imply that the books are based on real people, as it ends with a short note which involves Qwill calling Lilian Jackson Braun to interview her for the Qwill Pen.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_6a58cb64	type	Sommelier Speak
The Cat Who... Series / int_6a58cb64	comment	Sommelier Speak: Parodied. Qwilleran visits the Press Club, sits down next to Arch Riker and Odd Bunsen, and being permanently on the wagon, orders what is described as his "usual tomato juice." Riker comments that he must be quite the connoisseur of it. In response, Qwilleran runs the glass under his nose, then replies "An unpretentious vintage. Nothing memorable, but it has a naive charm. Unfortunately, the bouquet is masked by the smoke from Mr. Bunsen's cigar. I would guess the tomatoes came from... from Northern Illinois. Obviously a tomato patch near an irrigation ditch, getting the morning sun from the east and the afternoon sun from the west. My palate tells me the tomatoes were picked early in the day—on a Tuesday or Wednesday—by a farmhand wearing a Band-Aid. The Mercurochrome comes through in the aftertaste."
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The Cat Who... Series / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Cat Who... Series / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: The book's killer, who did it on orders from his boss, turns his own gun on himself after learning said boss had died in a traffic accident.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
The Cat Who... Series / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: The weatherman in Moose County, Weatherby Goode. Subverted in that it's a self-given stage name; his real name is Joe Bunker, as revealed in book #19 (The Cat Who Tailed a Thief).
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The Cat Who... Series / int_71bc0919	type	Burn Baby Burn
The Cat Who... Series / int_71bc0919	comment	Burn Baby Burn: In book 22 (The Cat Who Robbed a Bank), Qwilleran discovers a series of letters from his mother to his "Aunt" Fanny, and reads them. At the end, he discovers the truth about what happened to his Disappeared Dad. In a desperate act to get money for his family, the elder Qwilleran was shot while trying to rob a bank. Qwill angrily throws the letters into the fireplace, declaring that "The past is dead!"
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The Cat Who... Series / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
The Cat Who... Series / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: The murderer in this book is one, whose targets are all local carpenters. And they've been keeping track of them by using lipstick to write the victims' names and the dates of the murders on the wood under Qwill's cabin.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_7360806f	type	In-Series Nickname
The Cat Who... Series / int_7360806f	comment	In-Series Nickname: Qwill rather disparagingly refers to Polly's new kitten Bootsie as "Bigfoot" in this book only, though not where Polly can hear him.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_7390323c	type	Sticky Fingers
The Cat Who... Series / int_7390323c	comment	Sticky Fingers: A string of random thefts in Pickax in December prove to be the work of a kleptomaniac, Danielle Carmichael.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_73d1a356	type	The Noun Who Verbed
The Cat Who... Series / int_73d1a356	comment	The Noun Who Verbed: All of the titles.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
The Cat Who... Series / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Melinda Goodwinter, introduced two books before, is noted early on as having left Pickax for Boston.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_7644fbff	type	Bubble Pipe
The Cat Who... Series / int_7644fbff	comment	Bubble Pipe: Qwill buys a few in this book after it's suggested to him that the bubbles could be used to amuse the cats. Naturally, when Qwill tries it out for the first time, the pair are not impressed. He later gives them to Polly so she can use them to entertain Bootsie.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_780a078e	comment	Self-Made Orphan: Richard "Dick" Thackeray, the villain of the book, murdered his own father a few years after his mother died.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_7ad2c23d	type	ShoutOutToShakespeare
The Cat Who... Series / int_7ad2c23d	comment	Shout-Out to Shakespeare: Both Qwilleran and Polly are big Shakespeare buffs, and the series includes everything from minor Shakespeare references to entire Shakespeare plays being performed by the Pickax Theatre Club.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_7fc67b2b	type	Disinherited Child
The Cat Who... Series / int_7fc67b2b	comment	Disinherited Child: Variant in that it's a nephew rather than a son, but Thelma Thackeray had changed her will so her nephew — her only blood relative — was her primary heir. After discovering he was a murderer, she specifically changed it again to disinherit him, leaving everything to a foundation that will reestablish her late brother's animal clinic as a memorial to him.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_81241767	type	Smelly Skunk
The Cat Who... Series / int_81241767	comment	Smelly Skunk: After escaping Qwill's newly-wrecked car, Koko and Yum Yum have a run-in with a skunk when they apparently mistake it for another cat and leap out of a tree onto it. It takes some doing to deodorize them, and even then a hint of the smell lingers long enough for the book's killer to pass out when Koko gets too close to his face.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_81ae2774	type	Evil Matriarch
The Cat Who... Series / int_81ae2774	comment	Evil Matriarch: Margaret apparently is the one who got her sons addicted to luxury only to give them enough to let them keep living the good life â€” as long as they do whatever she wants. She didnâ€™t think that Fran Brodie was good enough for David, so when Harleyâ€™s in prison for negligent homicide, she encouraged David to marry Jill, thus setting the stage for tragedy.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_829b958e	type	Embarrassing First Name
The Cat Who... Series / int_829b958e	comment	Embarrassing First Name: Invoked in this book by a character named Letitia, who hates her name, and who mentions that her best friend has it even worse, being named Lionella.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_8504b817	type	Where the Hell Is Springfield?
The Cat Who... Series / int_8504b817	comment	Where the Hell Is Springfield?: The majority of the series takes place in Moose County, which is described as being "four hundred miles north of everywhere". Itâ€™s definitely in the United States (a minor subplot in The Cat Who Played Post Office involves an outdated American flag on display) and is probably somewhere in the vicinity of the Great Lakes. That's all that has ever been explained about where it is — the books never even mention which state it's in. While the first four books are suggested to take place in some major city, we never learn which one. Rather unusually for newspapers, neither the paper Qwill works for (The Daily Fluxion) nor its rival (The Morning Rampage) include the name of the city. The Cat Who Played Post Office confirms it and Moose County are in the same state though. A now-defunct fan forum once speculated that the city in the first few books is likely Detroit, but a brief mention of Michigan as a different location in The Cat Who Could Read Backwards would seem to refute this theory (while in the same book, Chicago, New York, Milwaukee, and Pittsburgh are similarly ruled out). Additionally, one character is mentioned to be traveling through Pittsburgh while driving to New York, indicating that the unnamed city must be further west. In The Cat Who Turned On and Off, a character travels by plane to Cleveland, thus also ruling it out as the setting. A mention of a character hiding out in Duluth (implying that it's a nearby "big place" into which one could disappear), plus the similar weather and proximity to the Great Lakes, could indicate northern Minnesota as Moose County's location.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_85ca9dab	type	Second Love
The Cat Who... Series / int_85ca9dab	comment	Second Love: Qwill for Polly Duncan, whose firefighter husband was killed in the line of duty less than a year after they married. This was at least fifteen years before she meets Qwill; she never remarried, nor even entered another serious relationship prior to meeting him. Judging by the way she talks about him on one of her early dates with Qwill, there's a good reason for this, but her relationship with Qwill does help her to finally heal.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_87af3e94	type	Start to Corpse
The Cat Who... Series / int_87af3e94	comment	Start to Corpse: Given the folksy nature of the series, it's not surprising that many of the books in it have a fairly long start to corpse. Even in the first book of the series, before the setting moved to the homely Moose County, it's page 88 before word comes down of a murder, and the book is only 216 pages long.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
The Cat Who... Series / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: Qwill's one-time love interest, Melinda Goodwinter, goes so far as to try to have his serious girlfriend murdered in an attempt to get him back.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_8c3241aa	type	One-Hour Work Week
The Cat Who... Series / int_8c3241aa	comment	One-Hour Work Week: Qwilleran is a columnist of this sort. His column is mentioned pretty frequently, but doesn't curtail him solving murders, taking up esoteric hobbies, and traveling all over the place. (And since he owns the newspaper — through a trust fund he had previously set up to deal with an inheritance — it's not like he needs to work. He just likes doing it so he doesn't get bored.)
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The Cat Who... Series / int_8efbd9d2	type	Meaningful Funeral
The Cat Who... Series / int_8efbd9d2	comment	Meaningful Funeral: It's frequently mentioned that the funeral of Ephraim Goodwinter, the patriarch of the well-to-do Goodwinter family, was extremely large and of great significance to the people of Moose County. Of course, since most of the people in Moose County hated him, it was meaningful for the wrong sort of reason. (It's also implied that he might not have actually been dead at the time of his funeral; Qwill finds evidence of a sort of escape hatch by which he might have evaded the circumstances of his death, and papers indicating the same.)
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The Cat Who... Series / int_902ff525	type	Sdrawkcab Alias
The Cat Who... Series / int_902ff525	comment	Sdrawkcab Alias: In the first book, Scrano is O. Narx.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_90c54800	type	Scrapbook Story
The Cat Who... Series / int_90c54800	comment	Scrapbook Story: Braun sometimes allows the story to be told from Qwilleran's perspective through personal journal entries or audio recordings; it generally works very well when she does.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_90e2b7b4	type	Theme Twin Naming
The Cat Who... Series / int_90e2b7b4	comment	Theme Twin Naming: Thelma and Thurston Thackeray, whose names started with the same two letters; Thelma states that her mother came up with two names, one for a boy and one for a girl, because she didn't know which she was having at the time, and wound up using both when it turned out to be fraternal twins.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_912714cc	type	Edible Bludgeon
The Cat Who... Series / int_912714cc	comment	Edible Bludgeon: Qwill uses one of these — a frozen rabbit he bought from a butcher shop earlier for the cats — to knock the killer senseless in the climax.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
The Cat Who... Series / int_927b2f11	comment	The Bus Came Back: Melinda Goodwinter returns to Pickax while Qwill is away, though she isn't seen onscreen until the next book.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_93399c3c	type	Patricide
The Cat Who... Series / int_93399c3c	comment	Patricide: The victim of the book, Mr. Delacamp, is murdered by his own illegitimate son. Neither of them knew of the relation at the time though.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_939bf44a	type	Personal Effects Reveal
The Cat Who... Series / int_939bf44a	comment	Personal Effects Reveal: While going through Hilary VanBrook's belongings with the executor of his estate, Qwill uncovers evidence that he was involved in a money-counterfeiting scheme.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_94332264	type	Busman's Holiday
The Cat Who... Series / int_94332264	comment	Busman's Holiday: Qwilleran is a well-known crime journalist who keeps trying to branch out into other topics. He's never successful, even when he's just trying to take a vacation.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_95b875b1	type	Not Me This Time
The Cat Who... Series / int_95b875b1	comment	Not Me This Time: When Qwill discovers a string of suspicious deaths or disappearances, all carpenters, he comes to suspect a serial killer. In the end, it turns out they were only responsible for five of the six deaths being investigated. The last one was Captain Phlogg, a local alcoholic and phony who sells fake antiques and was a ship's carpenter rather than a captain like he always claimed, and who ultimately and accidentally did himself in via his drinking habit.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_96cc4848	type	"Dear John" Letter
The Cat Who... Series / int_96cc4848	comment	"Dear John" Letter: A few weeks into Polly's visit to Paris, she sends one to Qwill, announcing that she's taken a three-year contract working for a local bookstore, and is having all her belongings sold to benefit the church while her cats are given up for adoption. Qwill himself recognizes it for what it is, and is most dismayed, but accepts it.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_98ce21fe	type	Long-Running Book Series
The Cat Who... Series / int_98ce21fe	comment	Long-Running Book Series: 1966 to 2007, totaling 34 books (counting spinoffs), albeit with an eighteen-year gap in publication between books 3 and 4.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_99ddfcec	type	Unwitting Instigator of Doom
The Cat Who... Series / int_99ddfcec	comment	Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Aubrey Scotten, whose actions in telling his friend Victor Greer about having seen Greer's ex-wife in Pickax lead to a hotel bombing and three deaths, including Greer's own.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_9ae8eea9	type	Character Tics
The Cat Who... Series / int_9ae8eea9	comment	Character Tics: Qwill tends to finger his luxuriant mustache when he's thinking. Apparently this can sometimes get a little violent, as he's occasionally described as "pounding" the mustache.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_9bf3470e	type	Santa Claus
The Cat Who... Series / int_9bf3470e	comment	Santa Claus: In The Cat Who Went Into the Closet, Qwill agrees to take on the role of town Santa Claus in the Pickax Christmas parade, but very nearly bolts when informed only after the parade itself is over that he's expected at the courthouse for lap-sitting, having already endured a bumpy dogsled ride through bitter cold weather, followed by a perilous ladder-climb.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_a18d407b	type	Samus Is a Girl
The Cat Who... Series / int_a18d407b	comment	Samus Is a Girl: At one point, Polly is jealous when she sees Qwill out with a young woman on the night he told her he was having dinner with "the architect from Cincinnati". Qwill informs her that the young woman was the architect from Cincinnati, and jokingly scolds her for "assuming the profession was limited to men". To be fair to Polly, though, (a) Qwill knew that she was assuming that the architect was a man, and he didn't correct her, and (b) the architect was one of his ex-girlfriends.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_a20b2263	type	Purple Is Powerful
The Cat Who... Series / int_a20b2263	comment	Purple Is Powerful: Euphonia Gage believes this and wears a lot of purple.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_a237392c	type	Detective Animal
The Cat Who... Series / int_a237392c	comment	Detective Animal: Left ambiguously open — Koko gives clues that in hindsight point directly at the criminal, though it is never made clear whether the clues are coincidental.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_a72d333f	type	Really Moves Around
The Cat Who... Series / int_a72d333f	comment	Really Moves Around: Qwill and the cats rarely spend two books in a row in the same quarters, with books 7 and 8 marking the first time it happens in the series (in both, Qwill lives in the former servant's quarters over the garage of the Klingenschoen family mansion). In The Cat Who Talked To Ghosts, Qwill says to Arch Riker that "I'm a gypsy at heart," ... "Home is where I hang my toothbrush and where the cats have their commode."
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The Cat Who... Series / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
The Cat Who... Series / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: The second carpenter Qwill hires goes by Iggy. It's not until after his death that the police find his driver's license and Qwill learns his full name, Ignatius K. Small, from it.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_a8adc5a0	type	Like a Son to Me
The Cat Who... Series / int_a8adc5a0	comment	Like a Son to Me: Although he doesn't ever voice the notion, Qwilleran thinks in this book that if he'd ever had a son, he would have liked him to be like Junior Goodwinter.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_a9c1bc0c	type	Bee Afraid
The Cat Who... Series / int_a9c1bc0c	comment	Bee Afraid: Bees are what kill the murderer in this book.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_aa5b4f2c	type	Wedding Episode
The Cat Who... Series / int_aa5b4f2c	comment	Wedding Episode: Part of the plot involves Qwill and Polly attending the wedding of Arch Riker and Mildred Hanstable. It mostly goes smoothly, except for Qwill having to rush back to Pickax early in a dogsled when the Gage mansion gets broken into and the cats are seemingly missing.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_ac5f0c82	type	Cloudcuckoolanguage
The Cat Who... Series / int_ac5f0c82	comment	Cloudcuckoolanguage: Nino, in the first book. Lampshaded: "He even speaks a language of his own, but we don't expect conformity of a genius, do we?"
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The Cat Who... Series / int_ae372576	type	I Warned You
The Cat Who... Series / int_ae372576	comment	I Warned You: Early on, when Qwill is making plans to go back to Down Below for a while, pretty much everyone he knows tells him it's a bad idea and tells him not to go. When the police call them to inform them Qwill is dead (it's actually a thief who stole his car and was misidentified), everyone is deeply distressed, and Chief Andrew Brodie even cries "I warned him!"
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The Cat Who... Series / int_ae4b1ce1	type	Caustic Critic
The Cat Who... Series / int_ae4b1ce1	comment	Caustic Critic: In the original book, The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, the art critic Mountclemens is very much this. He has managed to offend just about everyone on the art scene in town except for a select few artists he's propping up because he actually owns the studio that exhibits them, but is kept because his columns draw huge readership. His targets include a wealthy donor whose work he describes as "drugstore art". Of a sweet old butcher called "Uncle Waldo", he comments that "age is no substitute for talent". He also targets private collectors who are "less dedicated to art preservation than tax avoidance". Even his full name, George Bonifield Mountclemens III, pisses off some people, as it must be set line-by-line in the type on his byline and he insists on no abbreviations.note The book was written in the 1960s when all of this still had to be done by hand.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_ae50ca8f	type	Stage Names
The Cat Who... Series / int_ae50ca8f	comment	Stage Names: Hilary VanBrook goes by this name for professional purposes. After his death, his real name is revealed as William Smurple.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_ae5ab58b	type	Luck-Based Search Technique
The Cat Who... Series / int_ae5ab58b	comment	Luck-Based Search Technique: Koko is often responsible for unintentionally revealing the culprit or final clues... or is he? One of the ongoing themes for the series is the question of whether or not the Siamese is psychic.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
The Cat Who... Series / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: Qwill spends three weeks at his cabin, spending part of that time trying to have an addition built onto it that he can use as a study. He goes through two carpenters (both of whom disappear and turn up dead) before the addition, except for its foundation, is destroyed in a storm. After that, he gives up on having it built and soon after moves back to Pickax.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_b3a8053f	type	Never a Runaway
The Cat Who... Series / int_b3a8053f	comment	Never a Runaway: Qwill reunites with his first love Joy, who is married to a ceramic artist that Qwill instantly despises. Later in the story, Qwill writes her a check so she can try to get away from him, but a few days later the check bounces because someone tried to change the amount for much more than what was in his account. He confronts her husband, who shrugs and says that Joy ran out on him and isn't as innocent as Qwill wants to think. Her running away is accepted as the official story, but Qwill isn't buying it. The husband is lying, of course. He killed Joy and put her body in his kiln to destroy the evidence, then tried to cash the modified check.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_b58c51d8	type	My Beloved Smother
The Cat Who... Series / int_b58c51d8	comment	My Beloved Smother: Mrs. Appelhardt, matriarch of her family, is very controlling of her children, especially of her daughter Elizabeth.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_b747dbd8	type	Tall Tale
The Cat Who... Series / int_b747dbd8	comment	Tall Tale: Qwilleran collects various tall tales from around Moose County, and eventually publishes them.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_ba0791de	type	First Girl Wins
The Cat Who... Series / int_ba0791de	comment	First Girl Wins: To a small extent. In The Cat Who Saw Red, Qwill is reunited with his first love, Joy; he admits that every woman he's ever been involved with since her, including his ex-wife, has reminded him of her. After she's murdered, he finally moves on.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_bd9beaf4	type	Unexpected Inheritance
The Cat Who... Series / int_bd9beaf4	comment	Unexpected Inheritance: When Eddington Smith dies of a heart attack in this book, Qwill is shocked to find that Smith, who'd always said he was leaving Qwill his shop in his will, wasn't kidding — he's inherited the old man's estate, including his shop and all the books inside. Unfortunately, the building is destroyed in an explosion shortly thereafter.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_bdc453a0	type	Incest Subtext
The Cat Who... Series / int_bdc453a0	comment	Incest Subtext: In book #6 (The Cat Who Played Post Office), Penelope and Alexander Goodwinter, the sibling lawyers who initially handle Qwill's inheritance, are very close and it's implied Penelope is in love with her brother; at the very least, Penelope is a Clingy Jealous Girl.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_bddb820f	type	Must Have Caffeine
The Cat Who... Series / int_bddb820f	comment	Must Have Caffeine: Qwilleran is notorious for his potent coffee brew.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
The Cat Who... Series / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Thelma Thackeray, and her twin brother Thurston Thackeray.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
The Cat Who... Series / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Arch Riker and his second wife Mildred; the Tibbetts; Junior and Jodie Goodwinter; and a few of the other couples in the books.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_bf1bd991	type	Comical Coffee Cup
The Cat Who... Series / int_bf1bd991	comment	Comical Coffee Cup: During a staff meeting of The Moose County Something newspaper, Wilfred Sugbury, secretary to the publisher, fills a coffee mug for Qwilleran (owner and columnist) which reads "First we kill all the editors." He later fills another for Junior Goodwinter, the paper's editor, which reads "First we kill all the PR people."
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The Cat Who... Series / int_c1adfa3e	type	Thieving Pet
The Cat Who... Series / int_c1adfa3e	comment	Thieving Pet: Yum Yum has a habit of snatching small random objects, to the point where Qwill's nicknamed her "Yum Yum the Paw".
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The Cat Who... Series / int_c1d1d6ad	type	Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?
The Cat Who... Series / int_c1d1d6ad	comment	Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: In the later books, Qwill is romantically involved with Polly Duncan, the head librarian in Pickax. Polly, as it turns out, is short for Hippolyta. She explains that her father was a Shakespeare devotee, and she and her siblings are all named after characters from the various plays.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_c396fef9	type	Ponzi
The Cat Who... Series / int_c396fef9	comment	Ponzi: The villains of the book are revealed to be involved in one. Including notorious crooked businessman Don Exbridge and Mayor Gregory Blythe, along with supposed bookseller Kirt Nightingale, who's revealed to be a Moose County native who returned to town under an alias.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_c4cd07fa	type	Pyramid Power
The Cat Who... Series / int_c4cd07fa	comment	Pyramid Power: Elizabeth Hart is big on the idea of pyramid power. Unannounced, she and her boyfriend pop over to the Qwilleran's apple barn and set up a makeshift portable pyramid. After they leave, Koko makes his way to the very center of the pyramid, and there is a blackout across all of Pickax that doesn't stop until he exits the pyramid (and Qwill promptly disassembles and disposes of it to prevent such a thing from happening again).
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The Cat Who... Series / int_c63e5338	type	It Runs in the Family
The Cat Who... Series / int_c63e5338	comment	It Runs in the Family: Qwill discovers in book 22 that his father had an alcohol problem like him.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_c6846f0f	type	Bad with the Bone
The Cat Who... Series / int_c6846f0f	comment	Bad with the Bone: Attempted by the killer, who attacks Qwill with the thigh bone of a camel. Luckily for Qwill, the bone turns out to be a plaster fake that crumbles after one hit.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_c6dd9571	type	Lost Will and Testament
The Cat Who... Series / int_c6dd9571	comment	Lost Will and Testament: When Fanny Klingenschoen dies, one of Qwill's first tasks is to find where she hid her will, per the request of her lawyers. It turns out to be in her safe, along with two outdated copies.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_c76f81b8	type	Non-Idle Rich
The Cat Who... Series / int_c76f81b8	comment	Non-Idle Rich: Continuing in this role, Qwill helps to found a more full-featured newspaper in his new hometown of Pickax, whose newspaper was previously stuck in the 19th century.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
The Cat Who... Series / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: What turned the book's killer into a killer. Years of sexual abuse and the suicide of her twelve-year-old sister, who was also being abused, led to her developing a second personality who concluded that since her abuser was a carpenter, all carpenters were bad, therefore she started killing them.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
The Cat Who... Series / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: We never learn the real name of the child called Baby.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
The Cat Who... Series / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: Elizabeth Hart sort of appears this way to the natives of Moose County. She's very intelligent, and rather down-to-earth despite her wealthy background, but she's got very different interests than most of the other characters.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_cb0743c0	type	Lame Pun Reaction
The Cat Who... Series / int_cb0743c0	comment	Lame Pun Reaction: When Mildred Riker says that Yum Yum has had her "catciousness" raised, Qwill groans at the pun, Polly shudders and Arch says that was the worst pun he's ever heard. Later, Qwill makes one about why his cats are sniffing Celia Robertson's purse (he claims they think her feline companion Wrigley is inside, and "want to let the cat out of the bag"), prompting a bout of hysterical laughter from her.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
The Cat Who... Series / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Applying to both Qwill and Koko. Qwill's pepper-and-salt mustache bristles occasionally, and he sees it as a sign of raw intuition picking up on something suspicious. Koko at times appears to be psychic, but it's always left ambiguous as to whether or not his catty antics are just what they seem to be or not. At least, Qwilleran seems to find it ambiguous, but to the reader it's a bit more obvious that there's something magic about it. If a cat lets out a chilling howl once at the exact time of a suspicious death that later turns out to be murder, that may be a coincidence. If said cat repeatedly does this, then it can no longer be written off as just coincidence, especially combined with some of the other things Koko does — not to mention his six extra whiskers on each side, which are revealed in book 18 (The Cat Who Said Cheese) and may be related. However, on the "mundane" side of the argument is the fact that Qwill rarely manages to predict anything from Koko's clues, and the explanation of how Koko solves the mystery usually comes as Qwill tries to fit in Koko's behaviour after the fact with the solution he already knows. A lesser example is Mildred Hanstable Riker's Tarot readings. They are vague enough that there's no proof Mildred can predict the future, but almost always prove accurate.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
The Cat Who... Series / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: Don Exbridge, founder of XYZ Enterprises, is usually regarded this way In-Universe. It's proven correct when book #23 (The Cat Who Smelled a Rat) sees him caught out as participating in a Ponzi scheme.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_cca8c07b	type	"Metaphor" Is My Middle Name
The Cat Who... Series / int_cca8c07b	comment	"Metaphor" Is My Middle Name: Variant in that the speaker is talking about someone else — Qwill says of Yum Yum at one point that "Yes, propinquity is her middle name...".
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The Cat Who... Series / int_cfbd1467	type	Never Suicide
The Cat Who... Series / int_cfbd1467	comment	Never Suicide: The victim even leaves a note saying that if she apparently commits suicide, it was most likely murder at the hands of the most obvious suspect in the murder Qwill was originally investigating. However, the trope is subverted at the very last page. As Qwill himself says, "It wasn't murder made to look like suicide, it was suicide made to look like murder!" On top of that, it's entirely possible that the victim wasn't exactly the manipulated patsy of an accomplice she makes herself out to be. She was, after all, the brains of the family law firm.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
The Cat Who... Series / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: Every book features Koko the Siamese doing something odd which eventually leads to Qwilleran having a Eureka Moment. How plausible Koko's behavior is, either taken at face value or with the strong hint he's trying to give clues, varies considerably.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_d212847f	type	Key Under the Doormat
The Cat Who... Series / int_d212847f	comment	Key Under the Doormat: When Qwill is staying in the Klingenschoen cabin in Mooseville in The Cat Who Went Underground, he notes at one point that a spare key is hidden in a hollow log at the bottom of the log rack on the porch. When considering other places that someone might look for a key (to get in and feed his cats, if something happens to him), he thinks of obvious places like on top of the doorframe or under the doormat.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_d29a6629	type	Death by Childbirth
The Cat Who... Series / int_d29a6629	comment	Death by Childbirth: As revealed by Thornton Haggis, Milo Thackeray's first wife died giving birth to twins, Thelma and Thurston, the former of whom plays a major role in the book.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_d2b59903	type	Cool Old Lady
The Cat Who... Series / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: Fanny Klingenschoen, Qwill's mother's best friend, who leaves him her millions.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
The Cat Who... Series / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Herb Hackpole, after getting remarried to Iris Cobb, tries to burn down the new Klingenschoen Museum so she can't work there, like she insisted she was going to continue to do after they got married. He succeeds in destroying the museum, but dies in the blaze in the process.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
The Cat Who... Series / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Qwill gives himself one at the end of the book. While his girlfriend Melinda is praising him for learning the truth about what happened to a missing servant girl, Qwill points out that by digging into the girl's disappearance, he caused those responsible for what happened to the girl to panic and kill three other women; if he'd stayed out of it, the killers would never have been brought to justice, but those women would still be alive.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_d5bc2131	type	House Fire
The Cat Who... Series / int_d5bc2131	comment	House Fire: Near the end of the book, Qwill's primary residence — the converted apple barn he moved into in book #12 (The Cat Who Knew a Cardinal) is discovered burning. The exact cause is never determined in-story, though it's theorized that gangs from Bixby are responsible.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_d5d976dd	type	I Have Many Names
The Cat Who... Series / int_d5d976dd	comment	I Have Many Names: Unusually for the trope, it's an island instead of a person. Qwill has always called the place Breakfast Island, but natives call it Providence Island, the rich summer residents call it Grand Island, and the developers and tourists call it Pear Island.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_d727a8b1	type	Unknown Relative
The Cat Who... Series / int_d727a8b1	comment	Unknown Relative: Qwill discovers, while poking around Euphonia Gage's former home, that while her husband was in prison, Euphonia had a child with another man, and gave her up to a foster family. Lethe, renamed and raised as Lena Foote, subsequently married Gil Inchpot and had a daughter of her own, Nancy, who knew none of this. Qwill subsequently reveals all this to Nancy's cousin Junior Goodwinter, who's quite startled to learn he has a new cousin who raises and races a pack of Siberian Huskies.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
The Cat Who... Series / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Qwill and Arch are the best of friends, but spend most of their time sniping at one another.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
The Cat Who... Series / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After her and her sister's valuable teddy bear collection is stolen from their house, a furious Grace Utley abandons Pickax and Moose County, moving away and selling her home from a distance.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_dab2f3ee	type	Good Smoking, Evil Smoking
The Cat Who... Series / int_dab2f3ee	comment	Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: As noted above, the first three novels were written back in the 1960s, and Qwilleran smoked a pipe, which was considered to add character. Flash-forward to the 1980s when new books in the series started being published again. A lot more was known about the dangers of smoking and Qwilleran was convinced to drop the pipe. Not only that, but once he stopped smoking, he developed an aversion to tobacco smoke in all forms.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
The Cat Who... Series / int_db71d717	comment	Thanatos Gambit: After Penelope Goodwinter's apparent suicide, Qwilleran receives a posthumous letter claiming she expects to be murdered by her brother for her part in arranging (and then exposing) the murder of a girl he'd impregnated. Qwilleran eventually realizes she did commit suicide, and sent the letter to frame her brother — but by then, he's committed suicide as well.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_db8ace03	type	Epiphanic Prison
The Cat Who... Series / int_db8ace03	comment	Epiphanic Prison: Wealthy parents Nigel and Margret Finch have their twin sons David and Harley in one of these. They (more Margaret than Nigel) addicted the boys to a life of luxury, then give them just enough of an allowance to let them keep living the good life — as long as they do everything that their parents tell them to do.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_dd26fd14	type	Man of a Thousand Voices
The Cat Who... Series / int_dd26fd14	comment	Man of a Thousand Voices: Jim Qwilleran is an in-universe example. In The Cat Who Went Into the Closet, he creates a play with a dramatic radio re-enactment based on a historical fire which tore through the area. Although radio didn't exist at the time, attendees are asked to imagine that it did. Using historical newspaper accounts, he creates a script, voices the radio announcer, and splices in interviews by doing of recordings of himself in various voices, including an old farmer, an Irish brogue, and much more.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_e08f95fd	type	Everything's Louder with Bagpipes
The Cat Who... Series / int_e08f95fd	comment	Everything's Louder with Bagpipes: Police Chief Andrew Brodie, like many characters in the series, is of Scottish descent and is known to give stirring bagpipe performances at public events, weddings, and funerals.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_e37f19	type	Disguised in Drag
The Cat Who... Series / int_e37f19	comment	Disguised in Drag: Discussed, but not actually done. While he's discussing ways to secretly observe Delacamp's meeting with the ladies of Moose County to look over their jewelry, Qwill suggests sneaking in as a member of the wait staff; when told they're all young women dressed as French maids, he half-jokingly says that "If it weren't for my moustache, I could go in drag.", which earns a lot of laughs from his companions.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_e3bd3475	type	Stock "Yuck!"
The Cat Who... Series / int_e3bd3475	comment	Stock "Yuck!": Qwill loathes turnips and doesn't hesitate to say so; in book 18 (The Cat Who Said Cheese), he's convinced that 'something underhanded' must be done to make a dish containing turnips palatable. In another case in the same book, he writes in his "Qwill Pen" column about all of the different ways in which turnips are awful and in return (very late in the book) receives a giant turnip grown by one of his readers. First, though, the package has to be inspected by the bomb squad because there has recently been a bombing in the community and the package is considered suspicious. Qwill generally disdains tea, though he'll drink it to be polite if there's nothing else.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_e5f568e6	type	Furnace Body Disposal
The Cat Who... Series / int_e5f568e6	comment	Furnace Body Disposal: In The Cat Who Saw Red, Qwill learns that the murder victim's body was disposed of in a potter's kiln. It's what created the red "living glaze" on the pots. The killer also previously murdered Joy's cat and disposed of it the same way.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_e6a901a3	type	Meaningful Rename
The Cat Who... Series / int_e6a901a3	comment	Meaningful Rename: When Polly's new cat is introduced in book #10 (The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts), he's named Bootsie, and turns out to be a real brat. His behavior, and Polly's towards him, improves once she renames him Brutus in book #19 (The Cat Who Tailed a Thief).
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The Cat Who... Series / int_e79a02a8	type	VideoWill
The Cat Who... Series / int_e79a02a8	comment	Video Will: Iris Cobb leaves one in this book. She leaves most everything to her son or the museum where she worked, with her shares in the new antique store she was starting going to her business partner and Qwill being bequeathed her book of recipes and the wardrobe he once gave her as a wedding present.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_eba4e300	comment	Honorary Uncle: Qwill refers to Fanny Klingenschoen as Aunt Fanny, as he has done since childhood; she's actually his late mother's best friend, and considers him her godson. This is why she leaves him her estate of roughly $4 billion.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_ebfaf704	comment	Scary Stinging Swarm: This book has an Exit, Pursued by a Bear where the murderer is stung to death by bees because the beekeeper he's coerced into being an accomplice forgot that wool attracted them, possibly because of distress due to the murdererâ€™s coercion.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_ecf4f7ce	comment	Constantly Curious: Baby, the little girl who lives near Iris's home. Unfortunately, it leads to her getting seriously injured, though she gets better.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_f005bd1c	comment	Friend on the Force: Andrew Brodie, police chief for Pickax, is this for Qwill; he's also one of the very few people whom Qwill has trusted with the secret of Koko's strange abilities.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_f0c41e30	comment	Bachelor Auction: As part of the Explo, a celebrity auction is held with five men and five women, each accompanied by a special other event for the winning bidder. Qwill is talked into being one of the men (along with Pickax Mayor Gregory Blythe, John Bushland, Derek Cuttlebrink and Wetherby Goode), and is won by Something employee Sarah Plensdorf. He finds himself not only enjoying the evening, but getting material for his column out of it.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_f25493f4	comment	Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here: Moose County is "400 miles north of everywhere," and is described as an idyllic but boring rural location. The locals insist that crime is something that happens "Down Below," as they refer to the rest of the U.S., despite the fact that Moose County seems to have a per capita murder rate to rival Cabot Cove or St. Mary Meade.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_f2dadf81	comment	Evil Twin: The existence of an evil twin turns out to be a plot point in resolving the murder. Everyone thinks that mild-mannered David is mourning the recent murders of his twin brother Harley and sister-in-law Belle, and that the tragedy is what caused the twins' mother to have a stroke. It's eventually revealed that Harley was having an affair with David's wife Jill, and they cooked up a scheme in which Harley killed both David and Belle and took David's place. The mother's stroke happened when she figured it out. It's especially jarring because prior to all of this, no one had any suspicions about either twin.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_f44ad3e1	comment	Twin Switch: Central to the resolution. A couple has adult twin sons, David and Harley. One night, Harley and his wife Belle are murdered when someone breaks into their home. It's eventually revealed that it was actually David and Belle who were murdered; Harley and David's wife Jill, who were having an affair, had planned the whole thing so they could be together without anyone realizing. The twins' parents figured it out and were utterly destroyed — the mother had a stroke over it and the father shot himself because he was unable to choose between informing the police what had happened or becoming an accessory after the fact by hiding the truth.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_f516f938	comment	Never Found the Body: The driving plot of The Cat Who Played Post Office involves Qwill trying to figure out what happened to Daisy Mull, who disappeared five years earlier, after he gets confirmation that one of the supposed messages she sent indicating she was leaving was a forgery. She was killed by Birch Tree and her body was hidden by a mine collapse.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_f70710ae	comment	Blackmail Backfire: The reason why C.C. Cobb was murdered. He learned that Ben Nichols was a heroin pusher because addicts accidentally wandered into his shop enough times for him to catch on and tried to get Ben to cut him in on the profits. Ben murdered him instead.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: Emory Goodwinter, son of Halifax Goodwinter, did this via faking a car crash in New Jersey six years before, then changed his name to Charles Edward Martin, who would later return to Pickax in this book to claim his share of his father's estate and committing a string of petty thefts before being caught.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: In the early books, all of Qwill's editors misspell his name with a "q-u" instead of his actual "q-w". This occasionally resurfaces in later installments.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_fd6eeeb2	comment	Crime-Concealing Hobby: An actor murders his identical twin and impersonates him so successfully that no one around them note outside the family, but their mother dies of a stroke, their father commits suicide, the killer murders his own wife at the same time, and the dead man's wife is his accomplice, including people who'd known them both for years, suspects a switch has taken place. He's only found out when Koko detects the glue holding his fake mustache on (the dead twin had a real one, which was shaved off at the time of the murder).
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The Cat Who... Series / int_ff6ae1f6	comment	Evil-Detecting Dog: Koko's talent at detecting crimes is particularly showcased in The Cat Who Saw Red; Qwill is given an art piece by the man who married Joy, Qwill's first love, and he knows he hates the man, but he has no real reason apart from jealousy. Koko circles the piece of pottery and then hisses at it, prompting Qwill to decide, "We can't both be wrong." The red glazing on the pottery was created by its artist putting Joy's body into the kiln after he murdered her.
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The Cat Who... Series / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Qwill engages in this as frequently as circumstances allow. If he likes someone, he will go to great lengths to contribute to their happiness and well-being. One example: after the death of Junior Goodwinter's father, his mother auctions off practically everything they own, including a family heirloom desk which had been promised to Junior. Qwill defiantly outbids every challenger in order to purchase the desk, so he can give it to Junior as a wedding gift when he marries his sweetheart Jodie.
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