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The Cat Who Went Underground (1989)

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0515101230 (ISBN13: 9780515101232)
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English
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jove books

The Cat Who Went Underground (1989) - Plot & Excerpts

Qwill decides to get out of Pickax and spend the summer at the cabin in Mooseville. All sorts of problems start happening as soon as he arrives: spider in the furnace pilot, leaky pipes, animal nest in the chimney. The cabin seems smaller than he remembers it from two years ago and he decides to have an addition built. The problem is finding a carpenter. The local, reputable ones are all on big summer jobs and the underground network of itinerants can't be trusted. Finally he finds one who does really good work, until he goes missing over the 4th of July weekend. Qwill finds another who is prodded to work for a few days. When he fails to show for work for several days, Qwill gets suspicious that something happened. It is when Koko finds the carpenter dead in the crawl space under the cabin that Qwill's sleuthing goes into high gear. I know not to expect much from these, except a light read, which it is. I've read enough of the series now that when Koko first starts pawing at the rug over the trap door, I knew it was something significant, even without knowing how it would turn out.

Qwill takes the cats out to Mooseville where he has the cabin that he stayed in in "The Cat Who Played Brahms". As soon as he arrives, things start breaking at the cabin, and he has to hire the services of a fix-it company to make numerous repairs. Qwill decides he'd like to add a new wing to the cabin, but carpenters are almost impossible to find in the summer. He finally hires a good carpenter, but after framing in the new addition, the carpenter disappears. Qwill hires a fly-by-night guy called Izzy to finish the work and after 10 days Izzy doesn't come back. Koko is intrigued by the sandy area in the cabin's crawl space, and finally Qwill follows him down and makes a gruesome discovery.This was a really good read, and longer than most of the stories.

What do You think about The Cat Who Went Underground (1989)?

In a small town like Mooseville, where you leave your car doors unlocked, no one would suspect there was a murderer amoung them, Besides Jim Qwilleran that is. In The Cat Who Went Underground (the ninth Cat Who installment) Qwill doesn't read his forwarning horoscope and decides, spur of the moment, to go up to the K--fund's Mooseville cabin, by the lake. Qwill has many suspicions about all the accidents involving carpenters sudden deaths. Polly, the prime woman in his life, is in England for t
—Lucy

I was first introduced to this series at age 15 by a very dear family friend. She gave me the first two because she'd heard I liked to read, and since my family had just moved to Dallas she knew I hadn't made any friends. Being an avid cat lover I immediately fell in love with the premise, and the hero. Qwilleran is a 50ish, portly, semi-retired journalist who solves mysteries with his stunningly intuitive and intelligent Siamese cat, Kao K'o-Kung (Koko for short). I admit I'm giving this book five stars because of it's sentimental value, and it's never disappointing ability to entertain me. There isn't a single book in this series that didn't deliver exactly what I wanted.
—Candace

This a sneaky murder mystery where Braun has a number of events happening that will probably play out in later books. Here most of the focus in on Qwill trying to get the cabin in working order and trying to get an addition made at the same time. All sorts of events work against the addition and the carpenters in the area. In a big circle of events Qwill makes a connection that only he could make considering the information he's actually listening to.A good book but it takes a while for it to get going, once your half way in it starts to really move up on the pacing. Though it's a solid mystery, I have a feeling I've done some reading for future books. In this Polly is away, it makes Qwill a bit lonely, though the nice thing is that we get to see him interact with new people.
—Lisa Kucharski

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