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Sour puss

Visiting the local vineyards of Crozet, Virginia, world-renowned grape and fungus expert Professor Vincent Forland loses his head--literally. Forland had recently delivered a lecture on how distilled fungus plays a critical role in chemical warfare. Figuring the murder is political, the Crozet resid...

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Main Author: Brown, Rita Mae.
Other Authors: Forbes, Kate. (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language: English
Published: Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books, p2006.
Series: Mrs. Murphy mystery ; 14.
Subjects:
Haristeen, Harry (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Murphy, Mrs. (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Women detectives > Virginia > Fiction.
Cats > Fiction.
Virginia > Fiction.
Mystery fiction. > Virginia
Audiobooks.
Summary: Visiting the local vineyards of Crozet, Virginia, world-renowned grape and fungus expert Professor Vincent Forland loses his head--literally. Forland had recently delivered a lecture on how distilled fungus plays a critical role in chemical warfare. Figuring the murder is political, the Crozet residents are hardly bothered and return to their routines--until another headless body shows up. Now it's up to Mary Minor Haristeen and her sleuthing animals to sniff out a killer befor someone else dies.
Item Description: In container (17 cm.).
Title from container.
"Unabridged Mystery"--Container.
"A Mrs. Murphy Mystery"--Container.
"With tracks every 3 minutes for easy book marking"--Container.
Compact disc.
Physical Description: 6 sound discs (7 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Issued also on cassette.
ISBN: 1419361724
Author Notes: Rita Mae Brown was born in Hanover, Pennsylvania, on November 28, 1944. She received an associate's degree from Broward Junior College in 1965, a B.A. in English and classics from New York University in 1968, a Cinematography Degree from the School of the Visual Arts in 1968, and a Ph.D. in English and political science from the Institute for Policy Studies in 1976. She was the writer-in-residence at the Women's Writing Center of Cazenovi College and a visiting instructor teaching fiction writing at the University of Virginia.

After publishing two books of poetry, she published her first novel, Rubyfruit Jungle, in 1973. Her works include The Hand that Cradles the Rock, Sudden Death, Venus Envy, Loose Lips, and Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser. She writes the Mrs. Murphy Mystery series and Foxhunting Mysteries series. She also writes screenplays and teleplays including Sweet Surrender, Room to Move, Table Dancing, and The Long Hot Summer. Her work on TV earned several Emmy nominations and she received the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Variety Show in 1982 for I Love Liberty.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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