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Mrs. Murphy mystery volume 22
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English
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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.
2) Tall tail
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Mrs. Murphy mystery volume 25
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English
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"Returning to Virginia's post-revolutionary history and to characters introduced in Tail Gait, the story follows the Garth sisters and their husbands, neighbors to a brutal slaveholder whose murder at the hands of one of his slaves is neither unexpected nor unwarranted, especially when the impetus was an attack on that slave's wife. The sisters manage to smuggle the fugitive to safety in York, Pennsylvania, while ensuring that the circumstances underlying...
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Mrs. Murphy mystery volume 26
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English
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"Autumn is in the air in the Blue Ridge Mountain community of Crozet, Virginia--and all the traditions of the changing seasons are under way. Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen cleans her cupboards, her husband, Fair, prepares the horses for the shorter days ahead, and the clamorous barking of beagles signals the annual rabbit chase through the central Virginia hills. But the last thing the local beaglers and their hounds expect to flush out is a dead body....
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Mrs. Murphy mystery volume 23
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English
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"There's nothing like a tail well-told. Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown return with... Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen, crime-solving cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and ever-faithful Tee Tucker the corgi"--
Spring has sprung in Crozet, Virginia. Harry and her husband, Fair, are enjoying a cozy dinner with some of the town's leading citizens, including history professor Greg "Ginger: McConnell and several members of UVA's celebrated...
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Mrs. Murphy mystery volume 6
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English
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As the principal of St. Elizabeth's, an exclusive private school that caters to Crozet, Virginia's, best families, Roscoe Fletcher has proven himself to be a highly effective and vastly popular administrator. So when his obituary appears in the local paper, everyone in town is upset. Yet nothing compares to the shock they feel when they discover that Roscoe Fletcher isn't dead at all. Someone has stooped to putting a phony obituary in the newspaper....
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Mrs. Murphy mystery volume 19
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English
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After a hospital employee ends up dead, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen--along with her sleuthing animal companions Mrs. Murphy, Pewter, and Tucker--must find the murderer, all while Harry deals with a health crisis herself.
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Mrs. Murphy mystery volume 22
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English
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A busy holiday season for Harry, her husband, and her posse of pet detectives is interrupted by dark secrets from the community's past involving a cold case and a twenty-five-year-old love triangle.
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Mrs. Murphy mystery volume 7
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English
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After a plane crashes in Crozet, Virginia, the pilot's body is discovered in the refrigerator of a local food plant. An investigation is launched by Mrs. Murphy, the tiger cat of the local postmistress.
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English
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The discovery of a body in the beautiful Blue Ridge mountains dredges up mysteries that have lingered from Revolutionary Virginia through the Civil War and beyond, in a supernaturally thrilling new tale from Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown. A trial is underway in Albemarle County, where Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen and her trusty crew of two- and four-legged friends hope to catch a killer--who may not be the person accused...
10) Sour Puss
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Mrs. Murphy mystery volume 14
Pub. Date
2006.
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English
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In small-town Crozet, Virginia, Harry Haristeen is kindling her romance with veterinarian Fair when their bliss is threatened by the murder of Professor Vincent Forland, a world-renowned grape and fungal expert visiting local vineyards.
11) Furmidable foes
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"Someone's passed their expiration date in this thrilling new mystery in the bestselling Mrs. Murphy series from Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown. Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen and her pet sleuths uncover a rotten scam to dupe consumers when they discover that substandard produce is being passed off for organic, upmarket groceries. As always, Harry's crime-solving cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter and Tee Tucker the Corgi share her...
12) Rest in pieces
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Mrs. Murphy mystery volume 2
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English
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Mrs. Murphy thinks the new man in town is the cat's meow ... Maybe she should think again. Small towns don't take kindly to strangers--unless the stranger happens to be a drop-dead gorgeous and seemingly unattached male. When Blair Bainbridge comes to Crozet, Virginia, the local matchmakers lose no time in declaring him perfect for their newly divorced postmistress, Marry Minor "Harry Haristeen." Even Harry's tiger cat, Ms. Murphy, and her Welsh Corgi,...
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Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Gathering at William Woods University to celebrate the one-hundredth birthday of spunky Aunt Tally, Harry Haristeen and her sleuthing cats investigate the disappearance of a close friend who has gone missing after giving Aunt Tally an unusual gift.
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Mrs. Murphy mystery volume 11
Pub. Date
2003.
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English
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Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen and her sleuthing pets are back for their 11th Mrs. Murphy mystery in this "New York Times" bestselling series.
15) Catch as cat can
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Mrs. Murphy mystery volume 10
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English
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Spring fever comes to the small town of Crozet, Virginia. As the annual Dogwood Festival approaches, postmistress Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen feels her own mating instincts stir. As for tiger cat Mrs. Murphy, feline intuition tells her theres more in the air than just pheromones. It begins with a case of stolen hubcaps and proceeds to the mysterious death of a dissolute young mechanic over a sobering cup of coffee. Then another death and...
16) Claws for alarm
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Mrs. Murphy mystery volume 30
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English
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"Fair Haristeen is known throughout Crozet, Virginia, as a good horse vet and a better man. So when Ben Wagner, a new vet in town, is found dead in his unopened clinic, local police turn to Fair for help. Meanwhile, Candida Perez, one of Crozet's oldest and most beloved citizens, is found dead. The bickering of her children over her will and the family's collection of historical letters threatens to drive the rest of the town to madness. Fair's wife,...
17) Claws and effect
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Mrs. Murphy mystery volume 9
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English
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"As murder makes its rounds at the hospital, tiger cat Mrs. Murphy must pounce on every clue to save her human from a coldly calculating killer"--jacket.
18) Cat's eyewitness
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Mrs. Murphy mystery volume 13
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
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The peaceful town of Crozet, Virginia, is turned upside down by a statue of the Virgin Mary that begins to cry tears of real blood, as Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen and her sleuthing pets search for the truth about a local unsolved mystery.
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Mrs. Murphy mystery volume 16
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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In small-town Crozet, Virginia, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen and her feline sleuthing partners, Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, investigate when her friend, local architect Tazio Chappers, becomes the prime suspect in the killing of his most difficult client, Mrs. Carla Paulson.
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Mrs. Murphy mystery volume 8
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English
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With a twentieth high-school reunion coming up for the class of 1980 at Crozet High, someone starts mailing threatening letters, which everyone takes as a joke, until class members start turning up dead.
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