Cat on the Scent

Zusatztext "Leave it to a cat to grasp the essence of the cozy mystery: namely! murder among friends."— The New York Times Book Review "Told with spunk and plenty of whimsy! this is another delightful entry in a very popular series."— Publishers Weekly Informationen zum Autor Rita Mae Brown  is the bestselling author of the Sneaky Pie Brown series; the Sister Jane series;  A Nose for Justice  and  Murder Unleashed; Rubyfruit Jungle; In Her Day;  and  Six of One,  as well as several other novels. An Emmy-nominated screenwriter and a poet, Brown lives in Afton, Virginia.   Sneaky Pie Brown,  a tiger cat born somewhere in Albemarle County, Virginia, was discovered by Rita Mae Brown at her local SPCA. They have collaborated on numerous Mrs. Murphy mysteries—in addition to  Sneaky Pie’s Cookbook for Mystery Lovers  and  Sneaky Pie for President . Klappentext It takes a cat to write the purr-fect mystery. Things have been pretty exciting lately in Crozet, Virginia—a little too exciting if you ask resident feline investigator Mrs. Murphy. Just as the town starts to buzz over its Civil War reenactment, a popular local man disappears. No one's seen Tommy Van Allen's single-engine plane, either—except for Mrs. Murphy, who spotted it during a foggy evening's mousing. Even Mrs. Murphy's favorite human, postmistress Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen, can sense that something is amiss. But things really take an ugly turn when the town reenacts the battle of Oak Ridge—and a participant ends up with three very real bullets in his back. While the clever tiger cat and her friends sift through clues that just don't fit together, more than a few locals fear that the scandal will force well-hidden town secrets into the harsh light of day. And when Mrs. Murphy's relentless tracking places loved ones in danger, it takes more than a canny kitty and her team of animal sleuths to set things right again....The intoxicating fragrance of lilacs floated across the meadow grass.  Mrs.  Murphy was night hunting in and around the abandoned dependencies on old Tally Urquhart's farm, Rose Hill.  Once a great estate, the farm's main part continued to be kept in pristine condition.  A combination of old age plus spiraling taxes, and wages forced Thalia "Tally" Urquhart, as well as others like her, to let outlying buildings go. A huge stone hay barn with a center aisle big enough to house four hay wagons side by side sat in the middle of small one-and-a-half-story stone houses with slate roofs.  The buildings, although pockmarked by broken windows, were so well constructed they would endure despite the birds nesting in their chimneys. The hay barn, whose supporting beams were constructed from entire tree trunks, would outlast this century and the next one as well. The paint peeled off the stone buildings, exposing the soft gray underneath with an occasional flash of rose-gray. The tiger cat sniffed the air; low clouds and fog were moving in fast from the west, sliding down the Blue Ridge Mountains like fudge on a sundae. Normally Mrs.  Murphy would hunt close to her own farm.  Often she was accompanied by Pewter, who despite her bulk was a ferocious mouser.  This evening she wanted to hunt alone.  It cleared her mind. She liked to wait motionless for mice to scurry in the rotting burlap feed bags, for their tiny claws to tap against the beams in the hayloft. Since no one paid attention to the Urquhart barns, the mousing was superb.  Kernels of grain and dried corn drew the little marauders in, as did the barn itself, a splendid place in which to raise young mice. A moldy horse collar, left over from the late 1930s, its brass knobs green, hung on the tack-room wall, forgotten by all, the mules who wore it long gone to the Great Mule Sky. Mrs.  Murphy left off her mousing to explore the barn, constructe...

About the author

Rita Mae Brown is the bestselling author of the Sneaky Pie Brown series; the Sister Jane series; A Nose for Justice and Murder Unleashed; Rubyfruit Jungle; In Her Day; and Six of One, as well as several other novels. An Emmy-nominated screenwriter and a poet, Brown lives in Afton, Virginia.
 
Sneaky Pie Brown, a tiger cat born somewhere in Albemarle County, Virginia, was discovered by Rita Mae Brown at her local SPCA. They have collaborated on numerous Mrs. Murphy mysteries—in addition to Sneaky Pie’s Cookbook for Mystery Lovers and Sneaky Pie for President.

Report

"Leave it to a cat to grasp the essence of the cozy mystery: namely, murder among friends." The New York Times Book Review

"Told with spunk and plenty of whimsy, this is another delightful entry in a very popular series." Publishers Weekly

Product details

• Authors: Mae Brown, Rita M Brown, Rita Mae Brown, Sneaky P. Brown, Sneaky Pie Brown, Sneaky Pie Brown
• Assisted by: Itoko Maeno (Illustration)
• Publisher: Bantam Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.04.2000
• EAN: 9780553575415
• ISBN: 978-0-553-57541-5
• No. of pages: 318
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 175 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Bantam Paperbacks; Bantam Books; Mrs. Murphy Mysteries (Paperba; A Mrs. Murphy Mystery; Mrs. Murphy Mysteries (Paperba
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense