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The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers is one of the very late Cat Who novels from Lilian Jackson Braun, with the formula at its most relaxed. Jim Qwilleran and the Siamese cats are again moving through a Mooseville and Pickax season of small daily incidents and a peripheral mystery that resolves with the kind of gentle low-energy satisfaction the late series specializes in.
Braun's strength in this entry is the small daily texture that long-running cozy readers come for. The Polly Duncan relationship, Qwill's journalism column, the Mooseville Country Club material, and the various Pickax community fixtures all get appropriate cameo appearances. Fans of M. C. Beaton's Hamish Macbeth novels or of Joan Hess's Arly Hanks series will recognize the careful long-running cozy register.
The mystery is barely a mystery. The texture is the actual pleasure.
Three stars. Late-period Cat Who for the form's longtime readers. The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers Lilian Jackson Braun book works only for series regulars. New readers should start with The Cat Who Could Read Backwards.
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