Braun, Lilian Jackson - The Cat... Who 27 - The Cat Who Went Bananas by Braun Lilian Jackson

Author:Braun, Lilian Jackson [Braun, Lilian Jackson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Qwilleran; Jim (Fictitious Character), Moose County (Imaginary Place), Journalists, Mystery & Detective, Yum Yum (Fictitious Character: Braun), Fiction, Millionaires, Country Life, Cat Owners, Cats, Mystery Fiction, Siamese Cat, Yum Yum (Fictitious Character : Braun), Koko (Fictitious Character), General
ISBN: 9780515139785
Google: INxldj6mkbcC
Amazon: 0515139785
Publisher: Jove
Published: 2004-01-02T08:00:00+00:00

He said to the cats, "Your uncle Bushy is coming over this afternoon, but there's no need to go and hide; he's not bringing his camera."

The commercial photographer, John Bushland, lived on nearby Pleasant Street with his new wife, Janice, and their four Amazon parrots. They were getting together to discuss the Hibbard House.

It was a calm, pleasant afternoon, so they took a tray of refreshments out to the octagonal gazebo, screened on all eight sides. The cats went along in their canvas tote bag.

Janice said, "It's luscious out here!... Bushy, could we have something like this next summer?"

Her husband, whose hair was steadily receding, liked his irreverent nickname.

Qwilleran asked, "How are the parrots adapting to a new ménage?"

"They're fascinated by my shiny head," the photographer said.

"And we have two kittens from the brood next door!" his wife said with excitement. "One brownish and one calico."

"Have you been able to point the camera at them?"

"Any time we feel like it," Bushy said. "They're not fussy, as long as they get their two squares a day... Now tell me about the slides you mentioned on the phone."

Qwilleran asked, "How long will it take to make slides from black-and-white photos?"

"I can get them whenever I want them. I can pull strings, and I have a projector you can use. In fact, I'll operate it for you. What's it for?"

Qwilleran explained the forthcoming programme for the literary club, and Bushy thought he might have shots of Edd Smith in his file. He remembered one of the old man on the top step of a high stepladder, and another of him feeding pigeons on the sidewalk.

Then they tackled the question of photographing the Hibbard House.

Bushy said, "When I phoned Miss Hibbard to make an appointment for the shoot, she invited me to see the interior in advance. The rooms are huge, dark, and cluttered! Believe me, this is not going to be an easy assignment!"

Qwilleran told Janice, "I've never heard a photographer admit that anything would be easy. They're a smart breed. When the pictures turn out to be super, they're heroes."

She squealed with amusement, then said, "He took me along tier the ride when he went to check the quality of light on the exterior. It's very strange architecture! What style is it supposed to he? I thought I'd seen everything when I lived in California."

"Well, according to Fran Brodie, it has a colonial entrance, a Gothic roof, and a Venetian tower. The Victorian verandas were added later. The interiors, Fran says, are basically Jacobean."

Bushy said, "I've told Violet—she told me to call her that—to have a lot of fresh white flowers in the place and put a white tablecloth on the big dining table. I also told her we won't be using people in the pix."

Janice said, "I'm going along as his assistant."

"Yeah, she's been training, and she's very good! There are two things to be learned on this job: the use of close-ups when long shots are impractical... and the use of indirect lighting.

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