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* HonoraryUncle: Qwill considers himself to be something like this to Liz Hart, whom he meets when he saves her life on Breakfast Island after she is bitten by a deadly snake. A later book notes that because of that connection, he takes a sort of "godfatherly interest" in the young woman's well-being and activities. [[spoiler: When she dies in a car accident in book #28 (''The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell''), he is deeply saddened.]]
** Honorary Aunt: Qwill refers to Fanny Klingenschoen as his "Aunt Fanny", but they weren't related at all; she was his mother's best friend and considered him her godson.
** Honorary Aunt: Qwill refers to Fanny Klingenschoen as his "Aunt Fanny", but they weren't related at all; she was his mother's best friend and considered him her godson.
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* HonoraryUncle: HonoraryUncle:
** Qwill considers himself to be something like this to Liz Hart, whom he meets when he saves her life on Breakfast Island after she is bitten by a deadly snake. A later book notes that because of that connection, he takes a sort of "godfatherly interest" in the young woman's well-being and activities. [[spoiler: When she dies in a car accident in book #28 (''The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell''), he is deeply saddened.]]
**Honorary Aunt: Qwill refers to Fanny Klingenschoen as his "Aunt Fanny", but they weren't related at all; she was his mother's best friend and considered him her godson.
** Qwill considers himself to be something like this to Liz Hart, whom he meets when he saves her life on Breakfast Island after she is bitten by a deadly snake. A later book notes that because of that connection, he takes a sort of "godfatherly interest" in the young woman's well-being and activities. [[spoiler: When she dies in a car accident in book #28 (''The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell''), he is deeply saddened.]]
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* OddNameNormalNicknamed: Qwill's librarian girlfriend is Polly Duncan. Very few people know that Polly's father was such a Shakespeare devotee that all of his children were named after characters from the plays, and Polly's real first name is actually ''Hippolyta''.
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* EpiphanicPrison: Wealthy parents Nigel and Margret Finch have their twin sons David and Harvey in one of these. They addicted the boys to a life of luxury, then give them just enough of an allowance to let them keep living the good life -- as long as they do everything that their parents tell them to do.
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* EpiphanicPrison: Wealthy parents Nigel and Margret Finch have their twin sons David and Harvey Harley in one of these. They addicted the boys to a life of luxury, then give them just enough of an allowance to let them keep living the good life -- as long as they do everything that their parents tell them to do.
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* AdultFear: Late in the book, Qwill about has a panic attack when he realizes Yum Yum's been kidnapped by the person who broke into his barn. Fortunately, he's able to save her.
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* TheConfidant: Qwill. His folksy, down-to-Earth style generally causes even the most reluctant interview subjects to open to him, allowing him to delve deep into historical research with elderly figures who otherwise might clam up. It also comes in useful when it comes to possible suspects in the murder investigations he inevitably finds himself involved in.
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* {{Diary}}: Braun sometimes allows the story to be told from Qwilleran's perspective through personal journal entries or audio recordings; it generally works very well when she does.
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* ScrapbookStory: Braun sometimes allows the story to be told from Qwilleran's perspective through personal journal entries or audio recordings; it generally works very well when she does.
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* CozyMystery: After four books set in the city, the rest developed into Cozies, as Qwill remains an amateur sleuth but moves into a small town where everybody knows everybody else.
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* CozyMystery: After four books set in the city, the rest developed into Cozies, as Qwill remains an amateur sleuth but moves into a small town where everybody knows everybody else. Even the first four books could really be said to fit the bill, as they were only slightly edgier and still met the definition of "with no graphic violence, profanity, or explicit sex."
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* ComicalCoffeeCup: During a staff meeting of ''The Moose County Something'' newspaper, Wilfred Sugbury, secretary to the publisher, fills a coffee mug for Qwilleran (owner and columnist) which reads "First we kill all the editors." He later fills another for Junior Goodwinter, the paper's editor, which reads "First we kill all the [=PR=] people."
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* TalkAboutTheWeather: Considered simple politeness in Moose County before getting down to more serious subjects.
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* TalkAboutTheWeather: Considered simple politeness in In Moose County County, it is generally customary to spend a minute or two talking about the weather before getting down moving on to more serious subjects.subjects. This is just considered simple politeness, even with two people who know each other quite well.
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* MysteryMagnet: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]]. One of the characters comments that he cannot remember any dead bodies before Qwilleran came to town.
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* MysteryMagnet: James Qwilleren encounters murders and other various crimes with alarming frequency, even as the newspaper he works for often sends him out to do innocuous fluff pieces on things like a food expo, art exhibits, and the like. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]]. One Lampshaded]] when one of the characters comments that he cannot remember any dead bodies before Qwilleran came to town.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Don Exbridge, founder of XYZ Enterprises, is usually regarded this way.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Don Exbridge, founder of XYZ Enterprises, is usually regarded this way.way InUniverse. It's proven correct when [[spoiler: book #23 (''The Cat Who Smelled a Rat'') sees him caught out as participating in a {{Ponzi}} scheme.]]
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* BrotherSisterIncest: Implied to be the case with Penelope and Alexander Goodwinter, the sibling lawyers who initially handle Qwill's inheritance; at the very least, Penelope is a ClingyJealousGirl.
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* IncestSubtext: In book #6 (''The Cat Who Played Post Office''), Penelope and Alexander Goodwinter, the sibling lawyers who initially handle Qwill's inheritance, are ''very'' close and it's implied Penelope is in love with her brother; at the very least, Penelope is a ClingyJealousGirl.
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** An anthology of unrelated short stories involving various cats, including one set in Moose County during the Depression era and featuring Tipsy, who inspired the name of Tipsy's Tavern.
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** An anthology of unrelated fourteen short stories involving various cats, including one two set in Moose County County, though they don't feature Qwill or his cats. The two are:
*** "The Mad Museum Mouser": Features Homer Tibbet, Rhoda Finney and the museum cat Marmalade.
*** "Tipsy and the Board of Health": Set during the Depressionera and featuring era, it tells the origin story of Tipsy, the cat who inspired the name of Tipsy's Tavern.
*** "The Mad Museum Mouser": Features Homer Tibbet, Rhoda Finney and the museum cat Marmalade.
*** "Tipsy and the Board of Health": Set during the Depression
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** [[labelnote:Summary]]Moose County is preparing for another museum opening, but things take an ugly turn when one of its employees dies of a bee sting. Meanwhile, Polly moves to Paris on what's supposed to be a brief trip but turns into a three-year stay, Qwill works on a new one-act absurdist play, and Qwill gets a nasty shock when his barn burns down soon after he moves back into winter quarters.[[/labelnote]]
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* MustHaveCaffeine: Qwilleran is notorious for his potent coffee brew, though in the final book (which was widely panned by fans), he is portrayed as drinking tea (which earlier books had him disdaining).
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* MustHaveCaffeine: Qwilleran is notorious for his potent coffee brew, though in the final book (which was widely panned by fans), he is portrayed as drinking tea (which earlier books had him disdaining).brew.
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* StockYuck: Qwill loathes turnips and doesn't hesitate to say so; in book 18 (''The Cat Who Said Cheese''), he's convinced that 'something underhanded' must be done to make a dish containing turnips palatable. In another case in the same book, he writes in his "Qwill Pen" column about all of the different ways in which turnips are awful and in return receives a giant turnip grown by one of his readers. First, though, the package has to be inspected by the bomb squad because there has recently been a bombing in the community and the package is considered suspicious.
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* StockYuck: StockYuck:
** Qwill loathes turnips and doesn't hesitate to say so; in book 18 (''The Cat Who Said Cheese''), he's convinced that 'something underhanded' must be done to make a dish containing turnips palatable. In another case in the same book, he writes in his "Qwill Pen" column about all of the different ways in which turnips are awful and in return (''very'' late in the book) receives a giant turnip grown by one of his readers. First, though, the package has to be inspected by the bomb squad because there has recently been a bombing in the community and the package is consideredsuspicious.suspicious.
** Qwill generally disdains tea, though he'll drink it to be polite if there's nothing else.
** Qwill loathes turnips and doesn't hesitate to say so; in book 18 (''The Cat Who Said Cheese''), he's convinced that 'something underhanded' must be done to make a dish containing turnips palatable. In another case in the same book, he writes in his "Qwill Pen" column about all of the different ways in which turnips are awful and in return (''very'' late in the book) receives a giant turnip grown by one of his readers. First, though, the package has to be inspected by the bomb squad because there has recently been a bombing in the community and the package is considered
** Qwill generally disdains tea, though he'll drink it to be polite if there's nothing else.
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* DearJohnLetter: A few weeks into Polly's visit to Paris, she sends one to Qwill, announcing that she's taken a three-year contract working for a local bookstore, and is having all her belongings sold to benefit the church while her cats are given up for adoption. Qwill himself recognizes it for what it is, and is most dismayed, but accepts it.
* HouseFire: Near the end of the book, Qwill's primary residence -- the converted apple barn he moved into in book #12 (''The Cat Who Knew a Cardinal'') is discovered burning. The exact cause is never determined in-story, though it's theorized that gangs from Bixby are responsible.
* TheUnsolvedMystery: All three major mysteries in the book fall under this.
** The cause of the two major fires in the book -- the Old Hulk (which was being renovated into a senior center) and Qwill's barn -- is never discovered.
** The thieves who stole Nathan Ledfield's treasures from the museum that was to house them are never caught.
** Libby Simms, who dies of a bee sting, is confirmed to have died of foul play when it's found someone stole her kit to counteract bee venom -- but just who did so is never identified.
* HouseFire: Near the end of the book, Qwill's primary residence -- the converted apple barn he moved into in book #12 (''The Cat Who Knew a Cardinal'') is discovered burning. The exact cause is never determined in-story, though it's theorized that gangs from Bixby are responsible.
* TheUnsolvedMystery: All three major mysteries in the book fall under this.
** The cause of the two major fires in the book -- the Old Hulk (which was being renovated into a senior center) and Qwill's barn -- is never discovered.
** The thieves who stole Nathan Ledfield's treasures from the museum that was to house them are never caught.
** Libby Simms, who dies of a bee sting, is confirmed to have died of foul play when it's found someone stole her kit to counteract bee venom -- but just who did so is never identified.
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[[folder:Related books by Braun]]
* ''The Cat Who Had 14 Tales'' (1988)
** An anthology of unrelated short stories involving various cats, including one set in Moose County during the Depression era and featuring Tipsy, who inspired the name of Tipsy's Tavern.
* ''Short and Tall Tales: Moose County Legends Collected by James Mackintosh Qwilleran'' (2002)
** Collected anecdotes and regional folklore from residents of Moose County. This is the same in-universe book that Qwill began work on in book 19 of the main series.
* ''The Private Life of the Cat Who ...: Tales of Koko and Yum Yum (from the Journals of James Mackintosh Qwilleran)'' (2004)
** Collected anecdotes about Koko and Yum Yum. This is the same in-universe book that Qwill discusses working on in book #26.
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* ''The Cat Who Had 14 Tales'' (1988)
** An anthology of unrelated short stories involving various cats, including one set in Moose County during the Depression era and featuring Tipsy, who inspired the name of Tipsy's Tavern.
* ''Short and Tall Tales: Moose County Legends Collected by James Mackintosh Qwilleran'' (2002)
** Collected anecdotes and regional folklore from residents of Moose County. This is the same in-universe book that Qwill began work on in book 19 of the main series.
* ''The Private Life of the Cat Who ...: Tales of Koko and Yum Yum (from the Journals of James Mackintosh Qwilleran)'' (2004)
** Collected anecdotes about Koko and Yum Yum. This is the same in-universe book that Qwill discusses working on in book #26.
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* ThrowItIn: InUniverse example with the town of Brrr, long noted as the coldest spot in the county. It's explained in book #24 (''The Cat Who Went Up the Creek'') that the name was originally the result of a sign writer's slip-of-the-brush, but it was kept both for the aforementioned reasoning and because the townsfolk thought the mistake was funny.
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* ThrowItIn: InUniverse example with the town of Brrr, long noted as the coldest spot in the county. It's explained in book #24 (''The Cat Who Went Up the Creek'') and book #28 (''The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell'') that the name was originally the result of a sign writer's slip-of-the-brush, misspelling "Burr" as "Brrr", but it was kept both for the aforementioned reasoning and because the townsfolk thought the mistake was funny.
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* TheUnsolvedMystery: During the events of the story, Qwill attends a family reunion for the Ogilvie-Fugtree family, with plans to write a column on the subject, but it's called off when two rabbit hunters go into the woods and only one returns. The other is confirmed dead, but his murder is never solved for lack of evidence.
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** [[labelnote:Summary]]Pickax is celebrating a hundred and fifty years, and everyone's excited. But Qwill's more than a little suspicious about one of the visitors in town -- Harvey Ledfield, an architect from California and the nephew and only heir of socialites Nathan and Doris Ledfield, whom Koko takes a dislike to when Harvey visits the barn.[[/labelnote]]
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* AnyoneCanDie: Being beloved by the readers will not save a character from dying. Sometimes they're murdered, but there are also fatal car accidents, heart attacks, and just plain old age.
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* AnyoneCanDie: Being beloved by the readers will not save a character from dying. Sometimes they're murdered, but there are also fatal car accidents, accidents ([[spoiler: Liz Hart in book #28, during a storm]]), heart attacks, attacks ([[spoiler: Eddington Smith in book #23]]), and just plain old age.age ([[spoiler: Homer Tibbet in book #28, who dies in his sleep]]).
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* HonoraryUncle: Qwill considers himself to be something like this to Liz Hart, whom he meets when he saves her life on Breakfast Island after she is bitten by a deadly snake. A later book notes that because of that connection, he takes a sort of "godfatherly interest" in the young woman's well-being and activities. [[spoiler: When she dies in a car accident, he is deeply saddened.]]
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* HonoraryUncle: Qwill considers himself to be something like this to Liz Hart, whom he meets when he saves her life on Breakfast Island after she is bitten by a deadly snake. A later book notes that because of that connection, he takes a sort of "godfatherly interest" in the young woman's well-being and activities. [[spoiler: When she dies in a car accident, accident in book #28 (''The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell''), he is deeply saddened.]]
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* CreatorBacklash: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in-universe, late in the book, when Qwill, Polly, Arch and Mildred are talking and Qwill brings up Gelett Burgess, then recites the man's retaliatory poem saying how much he was annoyed by the popularity of his fluff 1895 poem "The Purple Cow".
* DirectLineToTheAuthor: Book #28 is the first and only book in the main series to imply that the books are based on real people, as it ends with a short note which involves Qwill calling Lilian Jackson Braun to interview her for the Qwill Pen.
* InheritanceMurder: [[spoiler: Harvey Ledfield slips mold into the air vents of his aunt and uncle's home, triggering respiratory illnesses that eventually kill them, all to ensure he'll get their money to invest in a ski lodge he's wanting to fund. It comes out afterward that he wouldn't have gotten anything, as all their money goes to charitable groups.]]
* DirectLineToTheAuthor: Book #28 is the first and only book in the main series to imply that the books are based on real people, as it ends with a short note which involves Qwill calling Lilian Jackson Braun to interview her for the Qwill Pen.
* InheritanceMurder: [[spoiler: Harvey Ledfield slips mold into the air vents of his aunt and uncle's home, triggering respiratory illnesses that eventually kill them, all to ensure he'll get their money to invest in a ski lodge he's wanting to fund. It comes out afterward that he wouldn't have gotten anything, as all their money goes to charitable groups.]]
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* CanonDiscontinuity: Book 29 (''The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers'') is widely regarded as this by many fans who were outraged at the sudden and unexplained changes to the well-loved landscape of the stories.
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** [[labelnote:Summary]]Autumn has returned to Pickax, and the town's new bookstore is preparing to open, with Polly Duncan in charge of running it. Meanwhile, Qwill's rather reluctantly on a diet, and investigating both the death of a visiting actor who was performing in the K Theater's latest production and the theft of one of the store's rare books.[[/labelnote]]
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* TheUnsolvedMystery: One of the books is like this. Not only do the characters not find out what happened or who killed the victim, the readers don't, either!
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* DietEpisode: This book is one for Qwill, which includes cutting back on rich foods and having to eat a banana every day. He doesn't do too well at sticking to it though.
* TheUnsolvedMystery: Not only do the characters not find out what happened or who was responsible for the deaths of the book's victims (the actor who died in a car accident after supposedly being on drugs, and Alden Wade's wife who was shot by a sniper), the readers don't, either! It's also never quite confirmed if Alden was responsible for the theft of the book that was stolen from the new bookshop and subsequently turned up among his belongings.
* TheUnsolvedMystery: Not only do the characters not find out what happened or who was responsible for the deaths of the book's victims (the actor who died in a car accident after supposedly being on drugs, and Alden Wade's wife who was shot by a sniper), the readers don't, either! It's also never quite confirmed if Alden was responsible for the theft of the book that was stolen from the new bookshop and subsequently turned up among his belongings.
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** [[labelnote:Summary]]The town of Brrr is celebrating the two-hundredth anniversary of its founding, Qwill's working on a new one-man show, and meets an older woman with an interesting story. Meanwhile, it seems that wild turkeys are returning to Moose County after a thirty-year absence, and two dead bodies are found -- one on Qwill's property in Mooseville, and another later, each killing having been carried out in the same manner.[[/labelnote]]
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* DoesNotDrive: Alicia "Lish" Carroll, who has her own driver because a heart condition makes it unsafe for her to drive. [[spoiler: Naturally, when she steals a car and tries to drive it near the end of the book, she gets into a fatal traffic accident.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: The book's killer, who did it on orders from his boss, turns his own gun on himself after learning said boss had died in a traffic accident.
* PassedOverInheritance: [[spoiler: Variant in that it's only ''part'' of the inheritance that's left out. Alicia Carroll is due to inherit a great deal of other money and property from her grandmother; when Mrs. Carroll decides to leave a specific portion of her estate -- her house and its contents -- to the town as a museum rather than let Alicia have it, Alicia takes considerable offense.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: The book's killer, who did it on orders from his boss, turns his own gun on himself after learning said boss had died in a traffic accident.
* PassedOverInheritance: [[spoiler: Variant in that it's only ''part'' of the inheritance that's left out. Alicia Carroll is due to inherit a great deal of other money and property from her grandmother; when Mrs. Carroll decides to leave a specific portion of her estate -- her house and its contents -- to the town as a museum rather than let Alicia have it, Alicia takes considerable offense.]]
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* TwinThemeNaming: '''Th'''elma and '''Th'''urston '''Th'''ackeray, whose names started with the same two letters; Thelma states that her mother came up with two names, one for a boy and one for a girl, because she didn't know which she was having at the time, and wound up using both when it turned out to be fraternal twins.
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* TwinThemeNaming: ThemeTwinNaming: '''Th'''elma and '''Th'''urston '''Th'''ackeray, whose names started with the same two letters; Thelma states that her mother came up with two names, one for a boy and one for a girl, because she didn't know which she was having at the time, and wound up using both when it turned out to be fraternal twins.
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* AlliterativeName: '''Th'''elma '''Th'''ackeray, and her twin brother '''Th'''urston '''Th'''ackeray.
* DeathByChildbirth: As revealed by Thornton Haggis, Milo Thackeray's first wife died giving birth to twins, Thelma and Thurston, the former of whom plays a major role in the book.
* DisinheritedChild: Variant in that it's a nephew rather than a son, but Thelma Thackeray had changed her will so her nephew -- her only blood relative -- was her primary heir. After [[spoiler: discovering he was a murderer]], she specifically changed it again to disinherit him, leaving everything to a foundation that will reestablish her late brother's animal clinic as a memorial to him.
* InheritanceMurder: [[spoiler: Effectively why Richard "Dick" Thackeray became a killer -- first he pushed his own father to his death, and then intended to kill his aunt, who'd inherited all his father's liquid assets, after becoming her heir. Unfortunately for Dick, Thelma has already changed her will to disinherit him, and then shoots him dead for his crimes.]]
* TheKillerBecomesTheKilled: [[spoiler: Richard "Dick" Thackeray, the villain of the book, is shot dead by his own aunt after she realizes he murdered his own father and was guilty of other crimes too.]]
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler: Richard "Dick" Thackeray, the villain of the book, murdered his own father a few years after his mother died.]]
* TwinThemeNaming: '''Th'''elma and '''Th'''urston '''Th'''ackeray, whose names started with the same two letters; Thelma states that her mother came up with two names, one for a boy and one for a girl, because she didn't know which she was having at the time, and wound up using both when it turned out to be fraternal twins.
* DeathByChildbirth: As revealed by Thornton Haggis, Milo Thackeray's first wife died giving birth to twins, Thelma and Thurston, the former of whom plays a major role in the book.
* DisinheritedChild: Variant in that it's a nephew rather than a son, but Thelma Thackeray had changed her will so her nephew -- her only blood relative -- was her primary heir. After [[spoiler: discovering he was a murderer]], she specifically changed it again to disinherit him, leaving everything to a foundation that will reestablish her late brother's animal clinic as a memorial to him.
* InheritanceMurder: [[spoiler: Effectively why Richard "Dick" Thackeray became a killer -- first he pushed his own father to his death, and then intended to kill his aunt, who'd inherited all his father's liquid assets, after becoming her heir. Unfortunately for Dick, Thelma has already changed her will to disinherit him, and then shoots him dead for his crimes.]]
* TheKillerBecomesTheKilled: [[spoiler: Richard "Dick" Thackeray, the villain of the book, is shot dead by his own aunt after she realizes he murdered his own father and was guilty of other crimes too.]]
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler: Richard "Dick" Thackeray, the villain of the book, murdered his own father a few years after his mother died.]]
* TwinThemeNaming: '''Th'''elma and '''Th'''urston '''Th'''ackeray, whose names started with the same two letters; Thelma states that her mother came up with two names, one for a boy and one for a girl, because she didn't know which she was having at the time, and wound up using both when it turned out to be fraternal twins.
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** [[labelnote:Summary]]Thelma Thackeray, famed actress and native of Moose County, has returned from California to enjoy her retirement in Pickax, while starting a film club. However, mystery follows, as Qwill ends up investigating her nephew's suspicious behavior.[[/labelnote]]
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** [[labelnote:Summary]]Nick and Lori Bamba are running the Walnut Inn (formerly Gus Limburger's mansion) in Black Creek, but Lori has a sense of foreboding about the place, so Qwill's been invited to stay for vacation while Polly's out of town with her sister. While the source of Lori's worry is soon removed, things take a startling turn when Qwill is once again drawn into a murder investigation after one of the cabin-dwelling guests, an illegal prospector, turns up dead in the creek.[[/labelnote]]
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* DrivenToSuicide: The book's killer had brought a drug and alcohol addict along to pose as his wife, along with her little boy Danny; the mother later leaves a note in her son's shirt and throws herself off a bridge to her death because she can't take it anymore.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: One of the victims in the book is a nature photographer who found signs of illegal tree and gold prospecting in the Black Forest Conservancy, and is shot to prevent him from telling anyone.
* IllGirl: Doyle Underhill's wife Wendy, who has a congenital heart condition and is under strict orders to avoid stress. Her condition eventually sends her to the hospital with a heart attack, which she fortunately survives.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: One of the victims in the book is a nature photographer who found signs of illegal tree and gold prospecting in the Black Forest Conservancy, and is shot to prevent him from telling anyone.
* IllGirl: Doyle Underhill's wife Wendy, who has a congenital heart condition and is under strict orders to avoid stress. Her condition eventually sends her to the hospital with a heart attack, which she fortunately survives.
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* ThrowItIn: InUniverse example with the town of Brrr, long noted as the coldest spot in the county. It's explained in book #24 (''The Cat Who Went Up the Creek'') that the name was originally the result of a sign writer's slip-of-the-brush, but it was kept both for the aforementioned reasoning and because the townsfolk thought the mistake was funny.
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* VitrolicBestBuds: Qwill and Arch are the best of friends, but spend most of their time sniping at one another.
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** [[labelnote:Summary]]Moose County is suffering from an unexpected drought and a delay in the first winter snowstorm, and things take an ugly turn when the newly deceased Eddington Smith's bookshop is destroyed in an explosion, while fires break out near historic shafthouses. When one of the volunteer fire watchers is shot and killed, Qwill's certain that somebody's up to no good.[[/labelnote]]
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* CorruptPolitician: Gregory Blythe, the mayor of Pickax, mockingly referred to as "Hizzonor" for most of the series. He's eventually voted out and replaced with Amanda Goodwinter, the local JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
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* CorruptPolitician: Gregory Blythe, the mayor of Pickax, mockingly referred to as "Hizzonor" for most of the series. He's eventually voted out as a result of the events of book #23 (''The Cat Who Smelled a Rat''), [[spoiler: which saw him arrested for his involvement in a Ponzi scheme]], and replaced with Amanda Goodwinter, the local JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
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* {{Ponzi}}: The villains of the book are revealed to be involved in one. [[spoiler: Including notorious crooked businessman Don Exbridge and Mayor Gregory Blythe, along with supposed bookseller Kirt Nightingale, who's revealed to be a Moose County native who returned to town under an alias.]]
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* FriendOnTheForce: Andrew Brodie, police chief for Pickax, is this for Qwill; he's also one of the very few people whom Qwill has trusted with the secret of Koko's strange abilities.
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* IllGirl: Qwill's ex-wife Miriam is indicated to be one of these; in book 3 (''The Cat Who Turned On and Off''), Arch snipes at him about having sent her money and he protests, pointing out that she's in poor health. A later book reveals that she dies in a sanitarium.
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* IllGirl: Qwill's ex-wife Miriam is indicated to be one of these; in book 3 (''The Cat Who Turned On and Off''), Arch snipes at him about having sent her money and he protests, pointing out that she's in poor health. A later In book reveals 23 (''The Cat Who Smelled a Rat''), Qwill admits to his friend Weatherby Goode that she dies in had a sanitarium.nervous breakdown and was committed to an institution soon after their divorce (which her parents had talked her into doing, since they'd never approved of Qwill), and that it's been a few years since she died there.
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* VitrolicBestBuds: Qwill and Arch are the best of friends, but spend most of their time sniping at one another.
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* UnexpectedInheritance: When Eddington Smith dies of a heart attack in this book, Qwill is shocked to find that Smith, who'd always said he was leaving Qwill his shop in his will, wasn't kidding -- he's inherited the old man's estate, including his shop and all the books inside.
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* UnexpectedInheritance: When Eddington Smith dies of a heart attack in this book, Qwill is shocked to find that Smith, who'd always said he was leaving Qwill his shop in his will, wasn't kidding -- he's inherited the old man's estate, including his shop and all the books inside.
inside. Unfortunately, the building is destroyed in an explosion shortly thereafter.
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* DivorceAssetsConflict: Overlaps with KickTheDog. Arch Riker, Qwill's lifelong best friend, is mentioned to be fond of antique tin, and at one time had a sizable collection, which his first wife managed to get in their divorce settlement. She promptly opened her own shop -- "Tin 'n Stuff" -- to sell it.
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* DivorceAssetsConflict: Overlaps with KickTheDog. Arch Riker, Qwill's lifelong best friend, is mentioned to be fond of antique tin, and at one time had a sizable collection, which collection. Book 23 (''The Cat Who Smelled a Rat'') reveals that his first wife managed to get it in their divorce settlement. She settlement and promptly opened her own shop -- "Tin 'n Stuff" -- to sell it.
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* UnexpectedInheritance: When Eddington Smith dies of a heart attack in this book, Qwill is shocked to find that Smith, who'd always said he was leaving Qwill his shop in his will, wasn't kidding -- he's inherited the old man's estate, including his shop and all the books inside.
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** [[labelnote:Summary]]It's September in Moose County, and the excitement is building as Amanda Goodwinter launches her campaign for mayor, the fully renovated New Pickax Hotel reopens under its new name of The Mackintosh Inn, famed estate jeweler and womanizer Mr. Delacamp makes his annual visit to buy old jewelry from the locals, and the Highland Games are due to be held. To top it off, Qwill receives a bundle of old correspondence between his late mother and "aunt", revealing aspects of Anne Mackintosh Qwilleran's past that Qwill never knew. But when Mr. Delacamp turns up dead, Qwill winds up investigating.[[/labelnote]]
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* DisneyVillainDeath: The last pages of the book reveal that the book's killer had been hiding out in the shafthouse of a long defunct mine, and had fallen to his death in the mine earlier that day.
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* DisneyVillainDeath: The last pages chapters of the book reveal that the book's killer had been hiding out in the shafthouse of a long defunct mine, mine. When his friend and had fallen Qwill go to try and find him, they accidentally startle him so he falls to his death in the mine earlier that day.shaft.
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* DisappearedDad: Qwill's father Dana Qwilleran, whom Qwill never met [[spoiler: because he was shot while trying to rob a bank out of desperation]]. It's not until book 22 (''The Cat Who Robbed a Bank'') that Qwill even learns his name through letters his mother sent to Francesca Klingenschoen, and is rather furious when he discovers the truth about the man's fate.
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** James Mackintosh Qwilleran had his name legally changed, as revealed in book #16 (''The Cat Who Came to Breakfast''), when he admits the truth to Liz Hart when she's doing a numerological reading of his name. Few other characters -- possibly none other than Arch Riker -- know that his birth name was ''Merlin'' James Qwilleran.
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** James Mackintosh Qwilleran had his name legally changed, as revealed in book #16 (''The Cat Who Came to Breakfast''), when he admits the truth to Liz Hart when she's doing a numerological reading of his name. Few other characters -- possibly none other than Arch Riker -- know that his birth name was ''Merlin'' James Qwilleran. Book 22 reveals that it came from his mother being a fan of the King Arthur stories.
* ItRunsInTheFamily: Qwill discovers in book 22 that his father had an alcohol problem like him.
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* NoodleIncident: Something took place prior to the start of the series which caused Qwill to lose everything he ever owned, including any photographs he ever had of his mother. Exactly what it was never gets completely revealed, although his disastrous marriage and bout of alcoholism are at least tangentially connected.
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* NoodleIncident: Something took place prior to the start of the series which caused Qwill to lose everything he ever owned, including any photographs he ever had of his mother. Exactly what it was never gets completely revealed, although his disastrous marriage and bout of alcoholism are at least tangentially connected.connected; book 22 suggests a fire was involved.
* TheTeetotaler: After putting his life back together prior to the events of book 1, Qwill has sworn off alcohol of any type, though he doesn't have any problem serving it to others.
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* DisappearedDad: Qwill's father was out of his life early on. ''The Cat Who Robbed a Bank'' eventually reveals how he died, and Qwill is rather furious when he discovers the truth.
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* DisappearedDad: Qwill's father was DisguisedInDrag: Discussed, but not actually done. While he's discussing ways to secretly observe Delacamp's meeting with the ladies of Moose County to look over their jewelry, Qwill suggests sneaking in as a member of the wait staff; when told they're all young women dressed as French maids, he half-jokingly says that "If it weren't for my moustache, I could go in drag.", which earns a lot of laughs from his companions.
* DisneyVillainDeath: The last pages of the book reveal that the book's killer had been hiding out in the shafthouse of a long defunct mine, and had fallen to his death in the mine earlier that day.
* IHaveThisFriend: Late in the book, Celia Robinson O'Dell's assistant Nora comes to Qwill and tells him the story of a person named Betsy, who'd had a child out ofhis life early on. ''The Cat Who Robbed a Bank'' wedlock and left him where he would be found and taken in by another family, but eventually reveals how he died, and grew up to kill his own father. Qwill easily figures out that "Betsy" is rather furious when he discovers really Nora herself, and her son is John "Boze" Campbell, the truth.
murderer of Mr. Delacamp.
* {{Patricide}}: The victim of the book, Mr. Delacamp, is murdered by his own illegitimate son. Neither of them knew of the relation at the time though.
* DisneyVillainDeath: The last pages of the book reveal that the book's killer had been hiding out in the shafthouse of a long defunct mine, and had fallen to his death in the mine earlier that day.
* IHaveThisFriend: Late in the book, Celia Robinson O'Dell's assistant Nora comes to Qwill and tells him the story of a person named Betsy, who'd had a child out of
* {{Patricide}}: The victim of the book, Mr. Delacamp, is murdered by his own illegitimate son. Neither of them knew of the relation at the time though.
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** [[labelnote:Summary]]Shortly after a backpacker goes missing in Mooseville, Qwill moves back into his lakeside cabin for the summer. Soon after, another recent transplant also dies under suspicious circumstances, and Qwill ends up investigating in his own way.[[/labelnote]]
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* SkepticNoLonger: Qwill's always been skeptical of the idea [=UFO=]s, but the climax of the book sees him becoming a believer, not that he'll ever admit it to anyone else. [[spoiler: Namely, when he sees an alien craft land and the creatures that come out of it, which Koko goes to greet, are... little green ''cats''.]]
