Synopses & Reviews
As the devoted readers of the series know, Qwill has been working on this book since
The Cat Who Tailed a Thief. Now the tales are finally all compiled-legends such as "The Secret of the Blacksmith's Wife" and "The Trevelyan Curse."
In Short and Tall Tales, Lilian Jackson Braun introduces James Mackintosh Qwilleran and tells how he collected the tales. Qwill provides a preface for each legend, identifying the teller and the circumstances. And it is no surprise that the tales themselves are entertaining stories that reveal the off-beat "history" of Moose County.
Cat Who . . . fans will delight in reading these stories and anecdotes taken from the pages of the books they have come to love.
About the Author
Lilian Jackson Braun is the author of twenty-four previous Cat Who . . . novels and the upcoming The Cat Who Brought Down the House.
Table of Contents
Contents
Introduction by Lilian Jackson Braun 1
1. The Legend of the Rubbish Heap, 3
2. Secret of the Blacksmith's Wife, 9
3. Housecalls on Horseback, 15
4. Hilda the Clipper, 21
5. Milo the Potato Farmer, 27
6. The Little Old Man in the Woods, 33
7. My Great-Grandmother's Coal Mine, 39
8. The True (?) History of Squunk Water, 45
9. Whooping It Up with the Loggers, 49
10. "The Princess" and the Pirates, 55
11. Wildcattin' with an Old Hog, 59
12. The Scratching Under the Door, 65
13. The Dimsdale Jinx, 69
14. The Mystery of Dank Hollow, 75
15. Tale of Two Tombstones, 81
16. The Pork-and-Beans Incident at Boggy Bottom, 87
17. At Last, a Hospital in the Wilderness, 93
18. Emmaline and the Spiral Staircase, 99
19. The Curious Fate of the Jenny Lee, 103
20. A Scary Experience on a Covered Bridge, 109
21. A Cat Tale: Holy Terror and the Bishop, 113
22. Those Pushy Moose County Blueberries, 117
23. The Curse on the Apple Orchard, 123
24. Matilda, a Family Heroine, 129
25. How Pleasant Street Got Its Name, 133
26. The Noble Sons of the Noose, 137
27. Phineas Ford's Fabulous Collection, 141