02150cam a2200337 4500 125312839 TxAuBib 20130110120000.0 030203s2003||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2003041685 9780739433393 0739433393 (OCoLC)52279562 TxAuBib Brown, Rita Mae. The tail of the tip-off [Large Print] / Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown ; illustrations by Michael Gellatly. New York : Bantam Books, 2003. 517 p. ; 22 cm. Mrs. Murphy's mysteries ; 11 When winter hits Crozet, Virginia, it hits hard--and hangs on for months. That’s nothing new to postmistress Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen and her friends, who keep warm with hard work, hot toddies, and rabid rooting for the University of Virginia’s women’s basketball team at the old stadium affectionately dubbed “The Clam.” But the usual postgame high spirits are laid low when contractor H. H. Donaldson drops dead in the parking lot. And pretty soon word has spread that it wasn’t a heart attack that did him in. It just doesn’t sit right with Harry that one of her fellow fans--perhaps even an acquaintance or neighbor sitting close by in the stands--is a murderer. And as tiger cat Mrs. Murphy is all too aware, things that don’t sit right with Harry make her restless, curious, and prone to poking her not-very-sensitive human nose into dangerous places. So the animals start paying closer attention to what the people around them are doing--and they’re the first ones to realize when the next murder occurs. 20130110. Haristeen, Harry (Fictitious character) Fiction. Women cat owners Fiction. Murphy, Mrs. (Fictitious character) Fiction. Women postal service employees Fiction. Cats Fiction. Virginia Fiction. Gellatly, Michael, ill. Mrs. Murphy's mysteries ; 11. TXMOO