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Mysteries for Adults and Mature Teens
These are mysteries I've read and include some from my favorite mystery series.
I will try to list the books in the order they come in their particular series.
It's best to read them in order. I started at the library and then bought the ones my library didn't have.
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Cat Mysteries /
Cozy Mysteries /
Mysteries Set in California
Cat Mysteries
The Cat Who Series by Lillian Jackson Braun:
In this series, journalist Jim Qwilleran (Quill) and his two extraordinary Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum, solve a series of mysteries in the small town of Pickax, in Moose County, 400 miles north of everywhere. Each book builds on the next, so it's best to read the books in order. You will get to know the characters from book to book, as many of them remain the same. I will not try to describe each plot. The first book in the series is The Cat Who Could Read Backwards. The books I'm selling in this series are after the list.
Cat Who Read Backwards
Cat Who Ate Danish Modern
Cat Who Turned On and Off
Cat Who Saw Red
Cat Who Played Brahms
Cat Who Played Post Office
Cat Who Knew Shakespeare
Cat Who Sniffed Glue
Cat Who Went Underground
The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts
Cat Who Lived High
Cat Who Knew a Cardinal
Cat Who Moved a Mountain
Cat Wh9o Wasn’t There
Cat Who Went into The Closet
Cat Who Came to Breakfast
Cat Who Blew the Whistle
Cat Who Said Cheese
Cat Who Tailed a Thief
Cat Who Sang for the Birds
Cat Who Saw Stars
Cat Who Robbed a Bank
Cat Who Smelled a Rat
Cat Who Went Up the Creek
Cat Who Brought Down the House
Cat Who Talked Turkey
Car who Dropped a Bombshell
The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare,
Jove, 1988. Hardcover, VG/VG. Library discard with all library markings and date slip, Dust jacket is protected by Mylar sleeve which has been taped onto boards. Book and jacket are very good, but someone wrote the number 88 at the top of jacket front flap in ink. BTH-5527. $7.50-U
The Cat Who Tailed a Thief, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1997. Hard cover, book club edition (?). Dust jacket has light wear to edges and corners. Some pages seem a bit wavy, but there is no discoloration or sign of water damage of any kind. Book is free of any writing or previous owner markings. BTH-5528. $4.99-U
The Cat Who Tailed a Thief, Jove, 1998.. First Jove paperback printing. Mass Market size paperback. Very good with light wear to cover, mostly on edges and corners. Book is free of any writing or previous owner markings. BTH-5529. $2.50-U
The Cat Who Smelled a Rat. Jove, Jan. 2002. Mass Market size paperback. First Jove paperback printing. Very good with light wear to cover, mostly on edges and corners. Book is free of any writing or previous owner markings. Image is of actual book, not a stock photo. BTH-5530. $3.50-U
The Cat Who Talked Turkey. Jove Books, 2005. Mass market paperback, retired from public library. Poor condition. Surface paper beginning to tear off bottom end of spine, but book is intact. Will sell for five cents if bought with any other book on this web site. To order from e-commerce site with another book, just say in comments section that you want this book for five cents. Good only until this book sells, since I only have one. Two original recipes included only in this edition.
Find more used books in this series with an author search for either Braun, Lillian Jackson or Braun, Lilian Jackson at
tomfolio.com. Books can be found under both, since some dealers didn't notice Lilian has only one "L: in this case.
Midnight Louie Mysteries by Carole Nelson Douglas: This is my very favorite mystery series. Midnight Louie is, as you might expect, a very black cat. He is also a tomcat, cat-about town in Las Vegas, and alpha-cat. He, with help from human, canine, and feline friends, finds serial killers in this series, which after the first two books, Catnap and Pussyfoot , are in alphabetical order by the first word of the last phrase. The nice thing is that if you happen to pick up a book out of order, most books will begin with Louie's introductory orientation to who's who and what's happened in the series thus far. I suggest, however, that you begin at the beginning, because in these books, you will want to get to know the characters book by book and you will begin to care even more about them than you will about the plot which moves from book to book. Each book solves one mystery, but you want to read the next one to see what happens to the main characters next. will list any I have for sale at the end of my list of books in the series. This is the order in which to read the books.
Midnight Louie: Catnap
Midnight Louie: Pussyfoot
Cat on a Blue Monday
Cat in a Crimson Haze:
Cat in a Diamond Dazzle
Cat with an Emerald Eye
Cat in a Flamingo Fedora
Cat in a Golden Garland
Cat on a Hyacinth Hunt
Cat in an Indigo Mood
Cat in a Jeweled Jump Suit
Cat in a in a Kiwi Con
Cat in a Leopard Spot
Cat in a Midnight Choir
Cat in a Neon Nightmare
Cat in a Orange Twist
Cat in a Quicksilver Caper
Cat in a Red Hot Rage
Cat in a Sapphire Slipper
Cat in a Topaz Tango
Pussyfoot: A Midnight Louie Mystery. A Tor Book, 1993. Good mass market paperback. Cover and spine have some mild creases. There is a small donut-shaped stain on the first page. BTH-5533. $2.99-U
Cat in a Neon Nightmare. A Forge mass market paperback, 2003. Very light wear to cover. Otherwise like new. BTH-5532. $3.50-U
For used books I don't have in this series, try an author search for Douglas, Carole Nelson
at tomfolio.com
Cozy Mysteries
Jill Churchill's Jane Jeffry Mysteries: Jane Jeffries is a suburban housewife who solves mysteries that just seem to pop up as her neighbors and others get murdered. Her neighbor and best friend Shelley is usually right at her side when there are cases to investigate. Here are the books in the order I believe is accurate as far as listed on the book I have. Although sometimes these book refer back to things that happen in previous books, reading these books in order is not as important as it is in the cat mysteries I have listed. By books fro sale are at the end of the list.
A Midsummer Night's Scream
Bell, Book, and Scandal
Much Ado About Nothing
A Groom with a View
A Knife to Remember
The Class Menagerie
Merchant of Menace
Fear of Frying
War and Peas
Silence of the Hams
From Here to Paternity
A Quiche Before Dying
Grime and Punishment
A Farewell to Yarns
House of Seven Mables
Bell, Book, and Scandal. Mass market paperback, Avon Books, 2003. Almost like new with minor wear to cover. Image is of actual book, not a stock photo. Jane and Shelley stumble on a murder at a nearby mystery writers' convention they are attending, and, of course, they are ready to jump right on the case. BTH-5531. $3.50-UFind lots more books in this series used at
tomfolio.com with an author search.
Mysteries Set in California
Benni Harper Mysteries by Earlene Fowler: Benni Harper, a young widow, is a spirited ex-cowgirl, quilter, and folk-art expert. Her home territory is San Luis Obispo, disguised as San Celina in this series, in San Luis Obispo County. Though her home city is not called by it's proper name, the surrounding cites of Morro Bay, Pismo Beach, Atascadero, and Paso Robles are properly identified. Benni is recovering from her husband's death in an accident as the series begins, and she has moved from her husband's family's ranch into San Celina, where she has found a job as the curator of a Folk Art Museum. It is in this context she is faced with solving her first murder. Throughout the series she has a habit of finding bodies or becoming involved in solving murders she comes in contact with. I very much enjoy this series because it takes place in my county and I can visualize the places mentioned. I also tend to get involved with the characters as they develop through the series and I learn to care what happens to them from one book to the next. Here are the books in this series in order, as far as I have read them. I do suggest you read them in order, since they do refer to past events.
Fool's Puzzle
Irish Chain
Kansas Troubles
Goose in the Pond
Dove in the Window
Mariner's Compass
Seven Sisters
Arkansas Traveler
Steps to the Altar
Sunshine and Shadow
Broken Dishes
Delectable Mountains
Tumbling Blocks
State Fair (due out in 2010.)
Goose in the Pond. A Berkley Prime Crime Book, 1998 mass market paperback edition. Cover and spine have creases but binding is still firm. Spine is slightly cocked. "#4" is written on inside front cover and "Erl" is written at top of first page. In this book, while Benni is jogging, she comes across the body of the library storyteller, still dressed in her Mother Goose Costume, floating in the lake. BTH-5534. $1.99-U
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