Wednesday, December 10, 2003
AUTHOR Brown, Rita Mae.
TITLE Tail of the tip-off / Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown ;
illustrations by Michael Gellatly.
IMPRINT New York : Bantam Books, 2003.
DESCRIPT 309 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
NOTE "A Mrs. Murphy mystery"--Cover.
SUBJECT Haristeen, Harry (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Murphy, Mrs. (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Women postal service employees -- Fiction.
Women cat owners -- Fiction.
Virginia -- Fiction.
Cats -- Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
ALT AUTHOR Gellatly, Michael, illus.
ISBN 0553801589
Publishers Weekly Review
You don't have to be a cat lover to enjoy Brown's 11th Mrs. Murphy novel (after 2002's Catch as Cat Can), which centers on the "Clam," the University of Virginia's giant sports complex. After a women's basketball game, construction company owner H.H. Donaldson falls dead in the parking lot. The police and Crozet, Va., postmistress Mary Minor (Harry) Hairsteen are barely into trying to find out who killed H.H.-and how-when a second mysterious death occurs at the arena. While Harry snoops around, her cats, Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and corgi, Tucker, do their best to help and protect their mistress. Thinking and talking pets may not be to every taste, but Brown writes so compellingly of the sprightly residents of the Virginia Piedmont, both human and animal, that you have to be a real curmudgeon not to be won over. The author breathes believability into every aspect of this smart and sassy novel.
TITLE Tail of the tip-off / Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown ;
illustrations by Michael Gellatly.
IMPRINT New York : Bantam Books, 2003.
DESCRIPT 309 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
NOTE "A Mrs. Murphy mystery"--Cover.
SUBJECT Haristeen, Harry (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Murphy, Mrs. (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Women postal service employees -- Fiction.
Women cat owners -- Fiction.
Virginia -- Fiction.
Cats -- Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
ALT AUTHOR Gellatly, Michael, illus.
ISBN 0553801589
Publishers Weekly Review
You don't have to be a cat lover to enjoy Brown's 11th Mrs. Murphy novel (after 2002's Catch as Cat Can), which centers on the "Clam," the University of Virginia's giant sports complex. After a women's basketball game, construction company owner H.H. Donaldson falls dead in the parking lot. The police and Crozet, Va., postmistress Mary Minor (Harry) Hairsteen are barely into trying to find out who killed H.H.-and how-when a second mysterious death occurs at the arena. While Harry snoops around, her cats, Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and corgi, Tucker, do their best to help and protect their mistress. Thinking and talking pets may not be to every taste, but Brown writes so compellingly of the sprightly residents of the Virginia Piedmont, both human and animal, that you have to be a real curmudgeon not to be won over. The author breathes believability into every aspect of this smart and sassy novel.
