The team of Koko, the brilliant Siamese cat, and Qwilleran, the reporter with the perceptive moustache, is back in action--with an adorable female Siamese, Yum Yum, added to the household. When Qwilleran decides to do a feature series on Junktown, he gets more than he bargained for. Not the dope den he anticipated, Junktown is a haven for antique dealers and collectors--as strange a lot as the crafty reporter has ever encountered. When a mysterious...

Inheriting unexpected millions has left reporter Jim Qwilleran looking like the cat who swallowed the canary. While his two Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum adjust to eing fat cats in an enormous mansion, Qwilleran samples the life styles of the rich and famous by hiring a staff of eccentric servants.

Qwill and his cats vacation in Mooseville, but when the carpenter he hires disappears, he begins to investigate what may be a serial killer's plan to wipe out the area's woodworkers.

Veteran reporter Jim Qwilleran tackles the supernatural in the latest entry in Lilian Jackson Braun's Edgar Award-nominated series. Are ghosts really haunting the Goodwinter farmhouse museum? Qwill doesn't think so--not until he finds Iris Cobb literally scared to death on the floor of the farmhouse.

Qwill's on top of the world when he rents a house on Big Potato Mountain. The owner, J.J. Hawkinfield, brought real estate development to the once-peaceful Potatoes. But Hawkinfield paid a steep price for his enterprise: He was pushed off a cliff by an angry mountain dweller Qwilleran, however, suspects the man is innocent--and Koko's antics have him convinced something's wrong. He may be making a mountain out of a molehill ... but he's determined...

While sifting through closets of junk in the mansion they have rented, Qwilleran and his feline companions, Koko and Yum Yum, uncover a mystery involving the suicide of the former owner and the murder of a potato farmer

Floyd Trevelyan's historic steam locomotive, newly restored, is the newest attraction in Moose County. But the excitement is eclipsed by shock when Trevelyan disappears ... along with millions of investors' dollars. Puzzled and suspicious, Qwill's trying to make a connection between the missing millionaire and a recent murder at a nearby railroad tavern. Now, with the help of Koko and Yum Yum, he's about to prove that the police are on the wrong track.......

There's been a rash of petty thievery in Pickax--ever since banker Willard Carmichael and his flashy young wife, Danielle, moved in. But now Willard's been killed in a mugging Down Below ... or so it seems. Qwill's suspicious, especially when Willard's house-restoration project in Pickax falls into the hands of Danielle's cousin--whose rich new wife then dies on her honeymoon! The clues are as elusive as a cat burglar in the night. But with Koko's...

Journalist Jim Qwilleran and his Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum, investigate the disappearance of a backpacker near Lake Superior. By the author of The Cat Who Sang for the Birds.

The big one is on it's way, and none too soon for the resdients of an unusually arid Moose County, who are becoming increasingly anxious about wildfires as they await for the first snowstorm of the season. A Citizen's Fire Watch is formed, and volunteers go out on shifts to patrol areas of concern, particularly.