Furmidable Foes

Furmidable Foes is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2020 by American Artists, Inc.

Illustrations copyright © 2020 by Michael Gellatly

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Bantam Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Names: Brown, Rita Mae, author. | Brown, Sneaky Pie, 1982- author. | Gellatly, Michael, illustrator.

Title: Furmidable foes / Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown; illustrated by Michael Gellatly.

Description: First edition. | New York: Bantam Books, [2020] | Series: A Mrs. Murphy mystery; 29

Identifiers: LCCN 2020000581 (print) | LCCN 2020000582 (ebook) | ISBN 9780593130032 (hardcover: acid-free paper) | ISBN 9780593130049 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Haristeen, Harry (Fictitious character)—Fiction. | Murphy, Mrs. (Fictitious character)—Fiction. | Women detectives—Virginia—Fiction. | Women cat owners—Fiction. | Cats—Fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3552.R698 F87 2020 (print) | LCC PS3552.R698 (ebook) | DDC 813/.54—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2020000581

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2020000582

Ebook ISBN 9780593130049

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Book design by Diane Hobbing, adapted for ebook

Cover design: Victoria Allen

Cover illustrations and hand lettering: Sara Mulvanny

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