The Cat Who Could Read Backwards

THE CAT WHO COULD READ BACKWARDS came out in '66, the first of three novels published in that decade by author Lillian Jackson Braun featuring a mystery-nosed reporter and his faithful sidekick, a siamese cat (contrary to the picture on the cover). Braun would return to the series in the 1980's and it would become quite the favorite with mystery readers and cat lovers, two groups with a perhaps surprising overlap.