Brown, Rita Mae

While Mary Frazier Armstrong lays dying, she writes letters to her family and friends telling them exactly what she thinks of them.

Postmistress Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen, assisted by her ingenious pets, Mrs. Murphy, Pewter, and Tee Tucker, sets out to investigate the murder of Hank Brevard, the plant manager of Crozet Hospital, who only days earlier had been dropping hints of trouble at the institution.

After a women's basketball game in mid-winter, a construction owner H.H. Donaldson falls dead in the parking lot, and while "Harry" Haristeen and the police begin an investigation a second death occurs, and one of Harry's favorite felines Mrs Murphey takes on the case.

Feline author Sneaky Pie Brown presents recipes for cats, dogs, horses, and humans, and includes a selection of anecdotes about her life with her "mother" Rita Mae Brown.

Feline detective Mrs. Murphy and her furry cohorts Pewter and Tee Tucker have their paws full trying to help their human solve a series of murders in their hometown.

Jane Arnold, the seventy-something Master of the prestigious Jefferson Hunt Club, sets a trap to catch a killer when the skeleton of Nola Bancroft--missing for over twenty years--comes to light still wearing her distinctive sapphire ring.