“Skillfully plotted, properly gruesome . . . and wise as well as wickedly funny.”
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And don’t miss the very first
MRS. MURPHY
mystery . . .
WISH YOU WERE HERE
Small towns are like families. Everyone lives very close together . . . and everyone keeps secrets. Crozet, Virginia, is a typical small town—until its secrets explode into murder. Crozet’s thirty-something postmistress, Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen, has a tiger cat (Mrs. Murphy) and a Welsh corgi (Tee Tucker), a pending divorce, and a bad habit of reading postcards not addressed to her. When Crozet’s citizens start turning up murdered, Harry remembers that each received a card with a tombstone on the front and the message “wish you were here” on the back. Intent on protecting their human friends, Mrs. Murphy and Tucker begin to scent out clues. Meanwhile, Harry is conducting her own investigation, unaware that her pets are one step ahead of her. If only Mrs. Murphy could alert her somehow, Harry could uncover the culprit before another murder occurs—and before Harry finds herself on the killer’s mailing list.
“Charming . . . Ms. Brown writes with wise, disarming wit.”
—The New York Times Book Review
WISH YOU WERE HERE
A Bantam Book
PUBLISHING HISTORY
Bantam hardcover edition published December 1990
Bantam mass market edition / November 1991
Bantam mass market reissue / April 2004
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This 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, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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Copyright © 1990 by American Artists, Inc.
Illustrations copyright © 1990 by Wendy Wray
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