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 NERFINISHED
appearsInWork Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats NERFINISHED
associatedWith Cats (musical) NERFINISHED
Macavity NERFINISHED
crime
belongsToSeries poems about cats by T. S. Eliot
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
createdBy T. S. Eliot NERFINISHED
createdByAuthor Thomas Stearns Eliot NERFINISHED
describedAs the Napoleon of Crime NERFINISHED
epithetOf Macavity NERFINISHED
fictionalUniverse Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats universe NERFINISHED
firstPublishedIn Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats NERFINISHED
genre children’s poetry
comic verse
nonsense verse
hasAlias Macavity NERFINISHED
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) NERFINISHED
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) NERFINISHED
inspiredBy Professor Moriarty NERFINISHED
languageOfWork English
literaryForm poetry
literaryPeriod 20th-century literature
narrativeFunction antagonist
partOfCollection Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats NERFINISHED
publicationYear 1939

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Macavity hasEpithet The Mystery Cat