The Cat Who Killed Lilian Jackson Braun

by Robert Kaplow

Overview

One of America's most beloved writers, Lilian Jackson Braun—author of twenty-four Cat Who... mysteries—becomes the subject of a mystery herself. In this spoof by one of her most ardent admirers, Braun's beheaded body has been discovered in the men's room of a gay bar in Lower Manhattan. The police are baffled, and so it is up to Braun's eccentric writer friend, James Q. (Qafka), and his Siamese cats Ying-Ton and Poon-Tang to solve the ghastly mystery. Q.'s quest leads him on a hilarious, ribald chase that's a cross between a story by Lenny Bruce and Dashiell Hammett. Before it's done, we've encountered Pulitzer Prize-winning Philip Roth, a sex-starved suburban housewife, a mysterious Hollywood diary, Britney Spears, an ancient secret society, and two gifted cats whose trail of urine and hairballs leads Q. and his spunky undergraduate assistant to finally unravel the riddle of which cat killed Lilian Jackson Braun.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781614670124
Publisher:	Phoenix Books, Inc.
Publication date:	06/01/2007
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	221
Sales rank:	348,922
File size:	880 KB

About the Author

Robert Kaplow is a novelist and satirist, whose books include Who's Killing the Great Writers of America?, Playland, and Me and Orson Welles.