The cat who solved mysteries

I think people like Mrs Braun's books because they instinctively recognise something that is done well. The other is a much subtler one

A few months ago, I had decided to stop this monthly column because I had got bored with it after four years and, I thought, so must have the half-a-dozen or so readers of it. 

But it wasn’t just six people who read the column but a round dozen and they all said I was a fool to stop it. After some importuning, I was persuaded to resurrect it.

After some discussion with a colleague of nearly 37 years, we agreed that I should do it differently this time by doing what I used to do in the early 1980s, namely, reassess