Whiskers In The Dark

Whiskers in the Dark 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 © 2019 by American Artists, Inc.

Illustrations copyright © 2019 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, author. |

Gellatly, Michael, illustrator.

Title: Whiskers in the dark: a Mrs. Murphy mystery / Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky

Pie Brown; illustrated by Michael Gellatly.

Description: First Edition. | New York: Bantam Books, [2019] | Includes

bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018061011 (print) | LCCN 2019000441 (ebook) | ISBN

9780425287194 (Ebook) | ISBN 9780425287187 (hardcover: alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Women cat owners—Fiction. | Cats—Fiction. | Women

detectives—Virginia—Fiction. | Murphy, Mrs. (Fictitious

character)—Fiction. | Haristeen, Harry (Fictitious character)—Fiction. |

GSAFD: Mystery fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3552.R698 (ebook) | LCC PS3552.R698 W49 2019 (print) |

DDC 813/.54—dc23

LC record available at lccn.loc.gov/​2018061011

Ebook ISBN 9780425287194

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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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