01602cam a2200325 4500 366791838 TxAuBib 20090318120000.0 080807s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2008034914 9780553807066 hardcover 0553807064 hardcover DLC DLC BTCTA BAKER YDXCP ABG CD5 UPZ C#P IG# IXA CD5 CS5 TxAuBib Brown, Rita Mae. Santa clawed /#17 Mrs Murphy / Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown ; illustrations by Michael Gellatly. New York : Bantam Books, 2008. xiv, 237 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. "A Mrs. Murphy mystery"--Jacket. Harry and her husband, Fair, have gone to fetch a Christmas tree at the tree farm run by The Brothers of Love, a semimonastic organization that tends to AIDS patients, when they find the tree they've chosen grimly decorated with a dead body. Can Harry, the sleuthing cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and corgi Tee Tucker save the season from a killjoy who's decided to gift the festive little town of Crozet, Virginia, with murder? 20090102. Haristeen, Harry (Fictitious character) Fiction. Murphy, Mrs. (Fictitious character) Fiction. Women postal service employees Fiction. Women detectives Virginia Fiction. Women cat owners Fiction. Cats Fiction. Christmas stories. Mystery fiction. Crozet (Va) Fiction.