The Mystery Cat

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The Mystery Cat is the epithet of Macavity, the elusive master-criminal feline from T. S. Eliot’s "Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats."

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instanceOf fictional character
literary character
appearsInPoem Macavity: The Mystery Cat
appearsInWork Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
associatedWith Cats (musical)
Macavity
crime
belongsToSeries poems about cats by T. S. Eliot
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
createdBy T. S. Eliot
createdByAuthor Thomas Stearns Eliot
linked to: T. S. Eliot
describedAs the Napoleon of Crime
epithetOf Macavity
fictionalUniverse Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats universe
firstPublishedIn Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
genre children’s poetry
comic verse
nonsense verse
hasAlias Macavity
hasForm narrative poem
hasGender male
hasMedium print
hasNotableLine Macavity, Macavity, there’s no one like Macavity
hasOccupation criminal
master thief
hasRole master criminal
master-criminal feline
hasSetting London (implied)
linked to: London, England
hasSpecies cat
feline
hasTargetAudience children
general readers
hasTheme anthropomorphic animals
crime and detection parody
humor
mystery
hasTrait criminal mastermind
cunning
elusive
mysterious
influencedAdaptation Cats (musical)
inspiredBy Professor Moriarty
linked to: Jim Moriarty
languageOfWork English
literaryForm poetry
literaryPeriod 20th-century literature
narrativeFunction antagonist
partOfCollection Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
publicationYear 1939

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Macavity hasEpithet The Mystery Cat
Hidden Paw notableLineAssociation Macavity’s a Mystery Cat: he’s called the Hidden Paw
linked to: The Mystery Cat