Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
"A Hiss Before Dying is a current contemporary mystery exploring wild animal poaching counterpointed with a historical narrative set in America's post-revolutionary past, featuring the characters readers embraced in Tail Gait and Tall Tail"--
"Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown are back chasing mystery with their unique circle of Southern sleuths. And though the changing colors of fall are a beauty to behold, this year the scattered...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
“As feline collaborators go, you couldn’t ask for better than Sneaky Pie Brown, the canny tiger cat. . . . Solid storytelling.”—The New York Times Book Review
The annual steeplechase races are the high point in the social calendar of the horse-mad Virginians of cozy Crozet. But when one of the jockeys is found murdered in the main barn, Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen finds herself in a desperate...
The annual steeplechase races are the high point in the social calendar of the horse-mad Virginians of cozy Crozet. But when one of the jockeys is found murdered in the main barn, Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen finds herself in a desperate...
6) Tail gait
Author
Language
English
Description
"An all-new mystery featuring Mary Minor 'Harry' Haristeen, crime-solving cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and ever-faithful Tee Tucker the corgi. It's spring in Crozet, Virginia, and old friends gather to bid farewell to the doldrums of winter. Harry and her husband, Fair, are enjoying dinner with some of the town's leading citizens, including beloved University of Virginia history professor Greg, 'Ginger' McConnell and some members of UVA's celebrated...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown return with a new tale in their bestselling Mrs. Murphy series, as mysteries past and present converge in Albemarle County, Virginia. Mary Minor 'Harry' Haristeen and her friends and animal companions pursue the threads of a mystery dating back to Virginia's post-Revolutionary past, when their 18th-century predecessors struggled with the challenges of the fledgling country. In the present day,...
10) Cat on the scent
Author
Series
Mrs. Murphy mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
11) Catch as cat can
Author
Series
Mrs. Murphy mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Bantam Books
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Severed human fingers in a church bookkeeper's pencil jar, a pair of dead mentors, and a cold case involving the disappearance of Harry's high school Latin teacher keep Harry and her pet detectives far too busy to admire the snow blanketing Crozet, Virginia as Harry and her husband prepare for the Silver Linings youth organization's upcoming gala.
Author
Language
English
Description
Mary Minor Harry Haristeen's beloved, tart-tongued neighbor Aunt Tally is about to turn the big 1 0 0, and the alumnae association of Tally's alma mater is throwing a big fund raising bash in her honor. The plan is to celebrate Tally's centennial and recoup some much needed school revenue lost in the cratered economy, but when a killer blizzard bears down and a board member goes missing, it falls to Harry and her menagerie of mystery solvers to track...
14) Hiss & tell
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"When a series of mysterious deaths spoil the Christmas season in Crozet, Virginia, Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen and her beloved cats and dogs lend the police a helping paw in this exciting holiday mystery from Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown. Christmas is coming and Harry's to-do list is a mile long. The days are filled with delivering holiday baskets to neighbors in need, chopping down the perfect tree with her best friend,...
17) Sour Puss
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
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 it's up to Mary Minor Haristeen and her sleuthing animals...
18) Full cry
Author
Series
Sister Jane Foxhunting mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
19) Cat's eyewitness
Author
Series
Mrs. Murphy mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Bantam Books
Language
English
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Jackson County Oregon can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request