There's something rotten in thesmall town of Pickax--at least tothe sensitive noses ofnewspaperman Jim Qwilleranand his Siamese cats Koko andYum Yum. An accident has claimed the life of the localpaper's eccentric publisher, butto Qwilleran and his felinefriends it smells like murder.They soon sniff out a shockingsecret, but Koko's snooping into an unusual edition ofShakespeare may proveCATastrophic...becausesomewhere in Pickax a ladyloves not wisely but too well, awidow is scandalously merry, and a stranger has a lean andhungry look. The stage is set forQwilleran, Koko, Yum Yum, andthe second act of murder mostmeow...