The Cat Who Blew the Whistle by Lilian Jackson Braun: A review
Koko and Yum Yum, the mystery-solving Siamese (well, Koko is anyway) are featured in this 18th in The Cat Who... series. There have been many other entries in the series since then and it has many devoted fans. I don't really count myself among them, although I have read a few of the books over the years. This book, however, was the August selection of my local Mystery Book Club and so I applied myself to reading it. It was a quick read, very light in tone, nothing to tax the brain. Jim Qwilleran, caretaker of the Siamese and a local newspaper columnist, also the richest man in his part of the world as we are reminded several times, is on the case of the missing millionaire, the thoroughly unlikable Floyd Trevelyan. Trevelyan was a financier who has disappeared at a time when millions of investors' dollars have also disappeared from his credit union. The two disappearances seem strangely linked. We learn that Trevelyan was a bully who was a tyrant to his family. He was a wom...