Tail Gait

Tail Gait is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2015 by American Artists, Inc.

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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Illustrations copyright © 2015 by Michael Gellatly

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Brown, Rita Mae, author.

Tail Gait : a Mrs. Murphy Mystery / Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown ; illustrated by Michael Gellatly.

pages cm

ISBN 978-0-553-39236-4

eBook ISBN 978-0-553-39237-1

1. Murphy, Mrs. (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Haristeen, Harry (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 3. Women detectives—Virginia—Fiction. 4. Women cat owners—Fiction. 5. Cats—Fiction. 6. Mystery fiction. I. Brown, Sneaky Pie-author. II. Gellatly, Michael, illustrator. III. Title.

PS3552.R698T33 2015

813’.54—dc23

2014049098

eBook ISBN 9780553392371

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Cover design: Beverly Leung

Cover illustrations: Beverly Leung,

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