The Cat Who Knew 14 Stories

In modern detective literature there is a special, “cozy” (in English, cozy) direction. In books written in this genre, there is none of what is now commonly called “action,” and the plot boils down to creating an elegant detective puzzle and an equally elegant solution—even if it comes at the cost of plausibility. The founder of cozy detective stories can very well be considered Agatha Christie, and the continuer of the genre’s traditions is the American writer Lillian Jackson Braun. Witty, and definitely not harsh, detective stories in which cats and kittens are always present brought the writer worldwide fame and a huge number of devoted readers.

Lillian Jackson Braun was born in 1913.
It is known that she was happily married, and many of her books have dedications to her husband (“To Earl Bettinger, the husband who…”). Cats always lived in their family home. It all began with them.
The first Siamese kitten was named Coco (after the hero of Sullivan’s comic opera “The Mikado”). But this kitten fell out of the window and broke. The owners were very upset, and then Lillian decided to write a story “about the cat.” That’s how a new author of “cozy detective stories” appeared—she wrote books about “the cats that” and, and this did not harm her work as a journalist. It is also known that Lillian Braun did not like computers and typed her novels about cats on an old primitive typewriter. Such people are called technophobes, but, as the writer says, the best assistant in her work was always just imagination. Because imagination is also a “muscle you need to train.”