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When a faculty member of the local prep school is murdered, the headmistress and "Sister" Jane Arnold, master of the foxhounds at Virginia's Jefferson Hunt Club, work together to uncover a killer. It seems the slaying may have been politically motivated, as students were demonstrating to call attent...

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Main Author: Brown, Rita Mae
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:English
Published: Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books, p2005.
Series:Brown, Rita Mae. Sister Jane series ; 4.
Subjects:
Arnold, Jane > (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
School administrators > Crimes against > Fiction.
Women detectives > Virginia > Fiction.
Women hunters > Fiction.
Older women > Fiction.
Virginia > Fiction.
Mystery fiction. > Virginia
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Summary:When a faculty member of the local prep school is murdered, the headmistress and "Sister" Jane Arnold, master of the foxhounds at Virginia's Jefferson Hunt Club, work together to uncover a killer. It seems the slaying may have been politically motivated, as students were demonstrating to call attention to the role of slavery in the school's past. With the annual hunt ball approaching, the 70-something Sister already has plenty on her plate. Does she have time to catch a murderer?
Item Description:In container (17 x 20 cm.).
Title from container.
Unabridged.
"With tracks every 3 minutes for easy book marking"--Container.
Compact disc.
Physical Description:6 sound discs (7 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Issued also on cassette.
Playing Time:07:15:00
ISBN:1419349082
9781419349089
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.

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