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Summary: Death stalks the Blue Ridge Mountains once again and Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen, along with her beloved cats and dogs, is on the case.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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Summary: When a body is found curiously displayed on "Sister" Jane Arnold's foxhunting grounds, members of her hunt club realize someone is sending them a dire message, in this exciting mystery from New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown. Early fall in Virginia means shorter days, cooler temperatures, the blooming milkweeds of summer giving way to fields of fluffy seeds--and of course, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023
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Summary: "Early fall in Virginia means shorter days, cooler temperatures, the blooming milkweeds of summer giving way to fields of fluffy seeds -- and of course, the start of fox hunting season. It's "Sister" Jane Arnold's favorite time of year. And this year, the Jefferson Hunt Club is busier than ever, organizing a fundraising drive to help with the upkeep of their beloved hunting grounds. But the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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Summary: "It's the start of fox-hunting season and Sister is training a new generation of hounds in eager anticipation of Opening Hunt. But before they make it to that exciting day, a man dies, apparently by suicide, shocking a community that never saw the death coming. Then Crawford Howard receives an ominous video in which he appears to be doing scandalous, career-ending deeds. The video is doctored,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the beloved Mrs. Murphy mystery series, Rita Mae Brown and her intrepid feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown return with a charming claw-biting tale starring Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen. Of course prowling faithfully at Harry's side are the sleuthing cats Mrs. Murphy, ever wise, and Pewter, reliably cranky and always primed with a razor-sharp quip....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2008
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Summary: In the middle of a particularly dull winter, nobody pays much mind to rumors of bad blood among the staff of Crozet Hospital. That is, until a member of the hospital staff turns up dead. Harry Haristeen can't resist doing some investigating of her own, but it's her sleuthing feline whose nose sniffs out the biggest clue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BANTT 0000
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Summary: While outside on Manhattan's Midtown streets a fierce snowstorm rages ferociously, nothing can dampen the excitement inside the elegant ballroom of Manhattan's Pierre Hotel. Hunt clubs from all over North America have gathered for their annual gala, and nobody is in higher spirits than Sister Jane, Master of the Jefferson Hunt in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains. Braving the foul weather, Sister...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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Summary: Shortly before the 5K Run for Breast Cancer Awareness, Harry and her pets find the corpse of well-liked OR nurse Paula Benton, one of the event's organizers, who appears to have died of anaphylactic shock from a hornet's sting. But was it murder?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2011
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Summary: When a faculty member of the local prep school is murdered, the headmistress and "Sister" Jane Arnold, master of the foxhounds at Virginia's Jefferson Hunt Club, work together to uncover a killer. It seems the slaying may have been politically motivated, as students were demonstrating to call attention to the role of slavery in the school's past. With the annual hunt ball approaching, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2005
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Summary: The chase is on in New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown's gripping new foxhunting mystery, featuring the irrepressible "Sister" Jane Arnold and the wily antics of her four-legged friends. In Let Sleeping Dogs Lie, a century-old crime reawakens bad will--and stirs up a scandal that chills Sister to the bone. Sister Jane and the Jefferson Hunt Club have traveled from Virginia's Blue...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: During an autumn scenic drive in rural Crozet, Virginia, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen and husband Fair discover the body of a murdered accountant lying in a cornfield. Rooting out the guilty murderer in the treacherous center of a lucrative conspiracy requires Harry's farmer's wisdom--along with the quick wits and extraordinary senses of Sneaky Pie, Pewter, and Tucker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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Summary: Crozet, Virginia, postmistress and town gossip Mary Minor ""Harry"" Haristeen gets help from her nosy tiger cat, Mrs. Murphy, in solving the strange case of a murdered Hell's Angel and a rampant computer virus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1995
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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Summary: Harry and her husband, Fair, have gone to fetch a Christmas tree at the tree farm run by The Brothers of Love, a semimonastic organization that tends to AIDS patients, when they find the tree they've chosen grimly decorated with a dead body. Can Harry, the sleuthing cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and corgi Tee Tucker save the season from a killjoy who's decided to gift the festive little town of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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Summary: Visiting the local vineyards of Crozet, Virginia, world-renowned grape and fungus expert Professor Vincent Forland loses his head--literally. Forland had recently delivered a lecture on how distilled fungus plays a critical role in chemical warfare. Figuring the murder is political, the Crozet residents are hardly bothered and return to their routines--until another headless body shows up. Now...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Summary: The tale of two decades in Montgomery Alabama-- a world where all is not what it seems. Meet Hortensia Reedmuller Banastre, a beautiful woman entrenched on old money, white magnolia and a loveless marriage-- until she meets an utterly gorgeous young prizefighter. Amid such memorable characters as Banana Mae Parker and Blue Rhonda Latrec (two first-class whores) and Reverend Linton Ray (who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1982
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Summary: When the dead body of building contractor H.H. Donaldson is found in the parking lot during a basketball game, felines Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, along with Tee Tucker the Corgi, know just what will happen next. Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen can't help but try to solve the puzzle. Who could be the killer? Is it a mistress, an archrival, or Donaldson's ailing wife? Soon Harry can't trust anyone....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2003
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Summary: The discovery of a murdered body disguised as a cornfield scarecrow becomes the first of several disturbing events in a scenic Virginia community, where Harry and her husband prepare for the local Halloween festivities and uncover a lucrative conspiracy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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Summary: Barry Monteith is barely alive when Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen finds him lying on the ground. His throat is ripped open, the jugular severed, and he is gurgling his last breaths. The obvious explanation is a wild animal attack. But there are no tracks of every kind surrounding the body. Even more preplexing, tiger cat Mrs. Murphy and her animal pals can't detect the scent of any possible...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2004
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Summary: Mary Minor Haristeen, postmistress of Crozet, Virginia, joins forces with her willful cat, Mrs. Murphy, and her Welsh corgi, Tucker, to investigate a series of bizarre postcards sent to the town's inhabitants that forecast impending death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1990
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Summary: "Christmas is coming, but Harry's friend on the police force, Cynthia Cooper, warns that the season can bring an uptick in crime. Her words prove tragically prescient when Harry and her best friend Susan discover the body of a man by the side of the road. One suspicious death is bad enough, but when Cooper reports that two more bodies have been found, Harry knows trouble is afoot. The autopsies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Summary: A Virginia newspaper runs an obituary on the headmaster of a girls' school, only to discover he is alive. But a few days later he is murdered. Postmistress Mary Minor Haristeen goes to work, her sleuthing cat in tow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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Summary: "Frigid February air has settled into the bones of the Blue Ridge Mountains, making for a slow foxhunting season, though 'Sister' Jane Arnold's enthusiasm is not so easily deterred. With the winter chill come tweed coats, blazing fireplaces, and perhaps another to share the warmth with, as the bold hunting scarlets worn by the men in Sister Jane's hunting club make the hearts of women...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2019