The Cat Who Killed Lilian Jackson Braun: A Parody

America?s most beloved writer, Lilian Jackson Braun, author of twenty-four Cat Who...mysteries, is now the subject of a mystery herself. In Robert Kaplow?s brilliant and bawdy parody, Ms. Jackson?s headless body has been discovered in the men?s room of a bar in Lower Manhattan. The police are busy filming reality television shows, and so it falls to Braun writer?s friend James Qafka and his Siamese cats, Ying-Tong and Poon-Tang, to solve the ghastly mystery.

Q.?s quest leads him on a wildly satirical chase that combines the spirits of Lenny Bruce, Dashiell Hammett, and the Hope/Crosby ?Road? pictures. Before it?s over, we?ve encountered a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, a sex-starved suburban housewife, a mysterious Hollywood diary, Harry Houdini, a sinister cult, and two gifted cats who lead Q. and his spunky undergraduate assistant to finally unravel the riddle of The Cat Who Killed Lilian Jackson Braun.