Catch as Cat Can: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery

Authors: Brown, Rita Mae
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC022040, FIC067000, FIC022110
ISBN: 9780553902174, Related ISBNs: 0553107445, 0553580280, 0553902172, 9780553107449, 9780553580280
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 368,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: 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 there’s 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 a shooting lead to the discovery of a half-million crisp, clean dollar bills that look to be very dirty.

Now Harry is on the trail of a cold-blooded murderer. Mrs. Murphy already knows who it is--and who’s next in line. She also knows that Harry, curious as a cat, does not have nine lives. And the one she does have is hanging by the thinnest of threads.
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