The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun is the first in a series of cozy mysteries. Jim Qwilleran is a middle aged reporter starting a new position at the Daily Fluxion as an art writer assigned to write stories about the local artists for the newspaper's feature section despite this complete lack of knowledge about art. As he begins introducing himself around town, the one constant he finds is that everyone hates his newspaper's art critic George Bonifield Mountclemens III. Then a local art dealer is murdered followed shortly by the homicide of the art critic.
The star character in the story is the spoiled Siamese cat owned by Mountclemens, Kai K'o-King or Koko for short. Qwill meets Koko when he is invited to dinner, and they become better acquired when Qwill cat-sits for a few days. What is most apparent is that Qwill needs to work on his cat communication skills because Koko is the one who knows what is going on and leads Qwill to the clues.
The mystery was ok, and the cat was magnificent. 4 stars.
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