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The purrfect murder, a Mrs. Murphy mystery, by Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown ; illustrations by Michael Gellaty

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The purrfect murder, a Mrs. Murphy mystery, by Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown ; illustrations by Michael Gellaty

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The purrfect murder

Oclc number

173749201

Responsibility statement

by Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown ; illustrations by Michael Gellaty

Series statement

Mrs. Murphy mystery, 16Thorndike Press large print Basic

Sub title

a Mrs. Murphy mystery

Summary

Autumn has arrived in cozy Crozet, Virginia, and that means the town's inhabitants are hard at work in home and garden preparing for winter. Harry is planning to harvest her first crop of Petit Manseng grapes along with her beloved sunflowers. Meanwhile, her recent marriage to Fair and her friendship with Deputy Cynthia Cooper, who's rented nearby Blair Farm, are flourishing. But even when peace descends on the idyllic countryside, murder is lurking. Mrs. Carla Paulson is one of the diamond-encrusted "come-here" set who has descended on Crozet with plenty of wealth and no feeling for country ways. She's determined to make her new house the envy of all her well-heeled friends--and enemies--and she's hired architect Tazio Chappers to build it. From the start, the project--and Mrs. Paulson--turns into a major headache relieved only by a side trip to study Thomas Jefferson's extraordinary summer home at Poplar Forest. Harry couldn't foresee that a day later Mrs. Paulson would be found stabbed to death at a gala fund-raiser with Harry's friend, Tazio Chappers, standing over her, holding the knife. Now Harry must solve what seems to everyone else an open-and-shut case. Every other human, that is. For her four-legged friends see it Harry's way

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Perfect murder

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