Probable Claws

Probable Claws 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 © 2018 by American Artists, Inc.

Illustrations copyright © 2018 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: Probable claws : a Mrs. Murphy mystery / Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie

Brown ; illustrated by Michael Gellatly.

Description: First Edition. | New York : Bantam Books, [2018] |

Series: Mrs. Murphy ; 27

Identifiers: LCCN 2018005055 | ISBN 9780425287156 (hardback) |

ISBN 9780425287163 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Haristeen, Harry (Fictitious character)—Fiction. |

Women cat owners—Fiction. | Murphy, Mrs. (Fictitious character)—Fiction. |

Women detectives—Virginia—Fiction. | Cats—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION /

Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths. | HUMOR / Topic / Animals. |

FICTION / Suspense. | GSAFD: Mystery fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3552.R698 P76 2018 | DDC 813/.54—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2018005055

Ebook ISBN 9780425287163

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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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