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Maurice
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| The Amazing Maurice | |
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| Name | Maurice |
| Age | indeterminate |
| Race | feline |
| Occupation | scam artist |
| Looks | that of a streetwise tomcat, ie barely any ears left and scars all over his nose |
| Residence | no fixed abode |
| Death | has an Arrangement with Death re number of lives left |
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| Marital Status | |
| Books | The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents |
| Cameos | Reaper Man |
A cat who is good at doing what cats do, ie steering people. A miouw here, a purr there, a little gentle pressure with a claw...Add a human-level intelligence induced by eating somebody he shouldn't (Additives), whilst foraging in the Unreal Estate, and we have a master scam artist with a vastly expanded repertoire.
The whole idea with the rat-piping was Maurice's brainchild... all it took was a clan of intelligent rats and a stupid-looking kid who could play the pipes a bit.
While the whole story of what awaited Maurice, the rats, and the stupid-looking kid in Überwald is told in The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, it is clear from anecdotal evidence presented in Reaper Man that they have previously tried the rat-piping scam in Ankh-Morpork.(Corgi PB, p98, p218) Maybe this why they moved the operation to Überwald (ie, far from Ankh-Morpork's jurisdiction), as this is the sort of thing you only try once with Vetinari...especially as it seemed to work, and Vetinari was scammed out of a reported $1,000 in gold dollars.
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