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Floyd Trevelyan's historic steam locomotive, newly restored, is the newest attraction in Moose County. But the excitement is eclipsed by shock when Trevelyan disappears--along with millions of investors' dollars. Now, Qwill--with the help of his cats, Koko and Yum Yum--is trying to make a connection between the missing man and a recent murder at the railroad tavern.
Customer Review: book review
Can Quilleren and his cats figure out who is responsible for the fraud, where the president of the company is, and where all that money went? Qwilleran is a columnist in his local paper. Everyone is in love with his column because he writes so well. But when Floyd Trevelyan hosts a party train ride costing $500 a ticket, and says he will give the money to a charity for a college, but then things happen. Someone calls an audit on him and he goes missing with the money. When a dog is killed and a body is turned up suspicions rise. Where is Floyd Trevelyan? Where is the money? Who killed the dog and the man? But then when clues pop up, and his cats Koko and Yum Yum since of mystery help, Qwilleran figures out that Floyd's new secretary killed Floyd and took the money, and the other deaths were from his son and another man in a feud. At the end Qwilleran figures out that the secretary was really a man, and tells the cop they are looking for the wrong name. He then reads to his cats. I didn't really like this book. There were way too many characters to keep track with. The story line didn't go like a normal mystery. Also, it didn't explain what happened afterwards. In this book there were tons of characters. So much that I couldn't even keep track of all of them. You had to remember the whole Trevelyan family the dad, the mom, the son, and the sister. You had to remember all of Quillerens friends, and also all his business partners and staff. There were still many of other key people also. Such as at the end of the book he started naming all these names that figured out the mystery and I didn't know who was who. This book was not like a normal mystery, but not in a good way. The whole book was like just a section of their life. Nothing interesting happened. There wasn't that made you wondering what was going on, or what was going to happen. Sure there were little things you wondered about but nothing big. This made it very boring to read this book. It didn't even seem like a mystery until the last five pages. Quilleren figures out the whole mystery, or at least turns the little one there was into a big one. But then after he figures it out, he basically does nothing about it. This book left you on a cliffhanger. It didn't explain what happened at the end. It just stopped at Quilleran reading the book to his cat. It didn't say if they fount the girl which was actually a man, it didn't tell what happened to all the people and if they found the body. Also nothing ever happened between Quilleren and Patty. It also never said where his friend went too. So really you didn't learn anything at the end except for when he solved the mystery, but other than that, you were clueless. This book sort of disappointed me. There were some good things, but mostly bad things. I wouldn't recommend it to other readers. It didn't have bad writing, but the story was not well written.
Customer Review: The best "Cat Who"!
This is the best "Cat Who" book I have read, and I've read them all! It was written during the golden years of "The Cat Who" series. It takes quite a skilled writer to kill off a beloved character while still keeping up the momentum of the story. I thought the mystery was well-developed, and the fun and quirky characters definitely come alive in this particular story. The switch from Down Below to Moose County feels justified after reading this book.


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