Brown, Rita Mae
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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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: "In the twenty-third book in the New York Times bestselling mystery series, Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown return with an all-new mystery starring Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen, intrepid kitty sleuths Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and Tee Tucker, the ever-faithful crime-solving corgi"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 2015
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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: "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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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: 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: 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: 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, a crime in which Harry's curious pets--Mrs. Murphy, Pewter, and Tucker--stumble upon the first clue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2007
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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 1999
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Summary: Using animal cunning and human canniness, Harry Harristeen and her menagerie of mystery solvers must sniff out the answers behind the disappearance of alumni association board member Mariah D'Angelo. Mariah's car is on campus, and Tucker has found human blood near the school's stables.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2010
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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: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BRODouglas, Carole Nelson.
Summary: When Aunt Kit's fianc ǎnd Temple Barr's boyfriend Matt are kidnapped from a bachelor party and taken to a Nevada ranch, Matt discovers a murdered young woman, while feline sleuth Louie, who managed to attend the kidnapping, endeavors to bail out his human friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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Summary: Small-town librarian Kathleen Paulson had no idea two stray cats could nuzzle their way into her life. But when murder interrupts Maryville Heights' music festival, Kathleen finds herself the prime suspect. She's relying on Owen and Hercules to solve a purr-fect murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Obsidian 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELKelly, Sofie
Summary: Kathleen is excited to meet three old pals of her beau, Detective Marcus Gordon, while they visit charming Mayville Heights on business. But the reunion is cut short when one of the friends is killed—and the evidence points towards Marcus as the murderer. Though it seems she doesn’t know all of Marcus’s secrets, Kathleen is sure he’s no killer. With his suspect status sidelining him from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2017
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Summary: A thrilling new tale from New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown. Death stalks the Blue Ridge Mountains once again and Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen, along with her beloved cats, is on the case. Pharamond "Fair" Haristeen is known throughout Crozet, Virginia, as a good horse vet and a better man. When Benjamin Wagner, a new vet in town, is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2021
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Summary: When a local mechanic is murdered after a series of suspicious traffic accidents, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen takes up the investigation, with her cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter and her corgi Tee Tucker never far behind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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Summary: "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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2016
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Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2005
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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2017
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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?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011