The Cat Who Smelled Smoke

The Cat Who Smelled Smoke is the unfinished 30th Cat Who novel that Lilian Jackson Braun was working on at the end of her career and that was not published in completed form. Drafts and notes for the manuscript exist; the actual finished version readers can buy is the 29th novel, The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers. References to "The Cat Who Smelled Smoke" in catalogs and online sources point to a never-finished entry.

For readers of the long Cat Who sequence, the absence of a completed final volume gives the late entries a particular accidental closure. The series ends, in practice, at The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers, with Qwilleran and the Siamese cats still living in Pickax and the Mooseville community still going about its small daily life. Fans of Lilian Jackson Braun's long-running cozy tradition will appreciate the gentle non-ending.

For those seeking the actual final published Cat Who, The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers is the right destination.

Three stars (notional). The Cat Who Smelled Smoke Lilian Jackson Braun reference is included here as part of the series catalog. The actual ending of the long sequence is The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers.