The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern by Lilian Jackson Braun

Large audience, since 26% of all American households own 53.9 million catsīorn on June 20, 1913, in Willimansett, a village within the city of Chicopee, Massachussets, Ms Braun worked as an advertising copywriter and public-relations executive before moving to the The Detroit Free Press. May like cats, all cat-fanciers seem to like mysteries.

That 'people are simply tired of all the blood. The 29th novel in the series, The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers, was published in 2007 when she was 93 years old.Įven though Braun claims that her cats have never done anythingĮxtraordinary, her fictional cats, Koko and Yum Yum, have solved crimes andĭelighted fans in book after book, ably assisted by newspaperman and amateur sleuth Jim Qwilleran. Reprinted the three mysteries from the sixties. Within two years her publisher, Berkley, released four new novels in paperback and The year.' Then, discouraged by the market's seemingly insatiable demand for sex and violence in mystery novels, she set the series aside for 18 years.Īfter retiring from the The Detroit Free Press, where she was the 'Good Living' editor of for 29 years, she took up the series again with the publication of The Cat Who Saw Red(1986). In 1966, The New York Times labeled Braun, 'the new detective of Three novels to critical acclaim The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern and The Cat Who Turned On and Off. The history of Lilian Jackson Braun is perhaps asĮxciting and mysterious as her novels.

The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern by Lilian Jackson Braun