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The Tail of the Tip-Off
When winter hits Crozet, Virginia, it hits hard--and hangs on for months. That’s nothing not used to postmistress Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen and her friends, who keep warm with effort, hot toddies, and rabid rooting for the University of Virginia’s women’s basketball team at the old stadium affectionately dubbed “The Clam.” However 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 which it wasn’t a heart attack that did him in. It just doesn’t sit right with Harry that you of her fellow fans--perhaps even an acquaintance or neighbor sitting near by in the stands--is a murderer. And since tiger cat Mrs. Murphy is all too aware, things that don’t sit right with Harry make her restless, curious, and susceptible to poking her not-very-sensitive human nose into dangerous places. So the animals start paying closer attention to the particular people around them are doing--and they’re the first ones to understand when the next murder occurs.
It seems clear to Harry that the deaths are connected--and she intends to discover exactly how. There’s no shortage of suspects, considering that H.H. was a ladies’ man who’d left a trail of broken hearts around town--the most recent owned by his wife-- and that the second murder victim had not been very popular in Crozet.As the authorities launch their investigation, Harry accumulates clues through savvy questioning of everybody she knows. But it’s the critters who are most attuned to trouble--they scent something wicked wafting Harry’s way on the tail of the next snowstorm. And since Harry draws nearer to the truth about a brutal killer, Mrs. Murphy and her friends realize it’s up to them to make certain their intrepid mom lands on her behalf feet.
