There's been a rash of petty thievery in Pickax ever since banker Willard Carmichael and his flashy young wife Danielle moved to town. But now Willard's been killed in a mugging Down Below... or so it seems. Qwill has his suspicions, especially when Willard's house restoration project fall into the hands of Danielle's cousin - whose rich new wife then dies on her honeymoon! The clues are as elusive as a cat burglar in the night. But with Koko's help, Qwill plans to catch a thief-and a killer....

Lilian Jackson Braun composed her first poem at the age of two. She began writing her Cat Who…detective series when one of her own Siamese cats mysteriously fell to its death from her apartment. Since then twenty-four Cat Who…. Novels have been published, all featuring the very talented Koko and Yum Yum, Siamese cats with a bent for detection. Lilian Jackson Braun and her husband, Earl, live with their cats in the mountains of North Carolina.