Mrs. Murphy #7: Cat on the Scent by Rita Mae Brown (1999)

Hardcover with DJ in Very Good (VG) condition. Clean and straight. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to a local library.  Rita Mae Brown and her feline collaborator, Sneaky Pie Brown, have won a loyal readership with their six novels featuring that fearless investigator of mischief and mayhem, the tiger cat Mrs.Murphy. Now, in their most entertaining mystery yet, murder comes close to home. As the men and women of Crozet, Virginia, prepare for a local Civil War reenactment, popular Tommy Van Allen is reported missing. No one's seen his single-engine plane, either — no one but Mrs. Murphy, who spotted it during a foggy evening's mousing in Tally Urquhart's abandoned barn. Even if fat cat Pewter insists that "nothing ever happens in May, " Mrs. Murphy is certain that something sinister did occur that night on the Urquharts' deserted airstrip.But how can Mrs. Murphy prove it when everyone in town is preoccupied with the debate over the regio