Reluctant millionaire and small town reporter Jim Qwilleran and his cats, Koko and Yum Yum, confront a new mystery when the octogenarian Thelma Thackerary returns to Moose County to turn the old opera house into a film club.

When the body of a well-dressed man is found shot execution-style in a wooded area on his property, Jim Quilleran and his feline companions, Koko and Yum Yum, investigate.

When the unpopular director of the Pickax Theatre Club's Shakespeare production is found dead, Jim Qwilleran searches for suspects among the players.

While Moose County is in an uproar over a string of lucrative inheritances, Polly departs for Paris, Koko the irrepressible Siamese meets a piano tuner, Qwill writes a play, and a mysterious bee sting-related death occurs.

While sifting through closets of junk in the mansion they have rented, Qwilleran and his feline companions, Koko and Yum Yum, uncover a mystery involving the suicide of the former owner and the murder of a potato farmer.

Persuaded to join a tour of Scotland, Jim Qwilleran finds his enjoyment of the trip threatened when a jewel thief swipes a suitcase, the bus driver vanishes, a fellow tourist is found dead, and Polly is tailed by the Pickax Prowler.

Koko, Yum Yum, and Jim Qwilleran investigate foul play at the Great Food Expo. A hotel is bombed, a housekeeper killed, a mysterious guest disappears, the owner is hospitalized, and Koko and Yum Yum develop a new interest in cheese.

Former award winning news reporter Jim Qwilleran is assigned to the art world as his new news beat. When a murderer sicks a knife in the neck of a local gallery owner and goes berserk among the works on show, Qwilleran gets help from his Siamese cat solving the mystery.

Koko's strange new hobby of dropping himself from balconies has landed him in the oddest of places--a young visitor's head whose wealthy relatives soon fall deathly ill, making Qwill have his work cut out for him.

"Koko is the extraordinary male Siamese who happens to have a full dozen extra whiskers. Blessed with an uncanny ability to distinguish right from wrong, Koko has sniffed out more than a handful of deviants. Yum Yum is the precious female of the pair. Her tendency to steal things, particularly hearts, is her most remarkable quality. And in the middle of it all is the good-natured James Qwilleran, columnist for The Moose County Something, and diarist...