Dedicated to
Professor Francis McGovern
An extraordinary man and a kind one.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
As always, Marion Maggiolo gives me ideas. Every time I visit Horse Country I walk out with a new thought as well as something beautiful. This time she suggested I investigate Belle Baruch. As Munnings had painted her in 1932, I began to focus on his lady subjects.
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has a spectacular Munnings, which set me off on seeing as many as I could.
For many years I have been indebted to the National Sporting Library & Museum, established in Middleburg, Virginia, in 1954. I’ve learned so much over the decades and can never see it or the Museum of Hounds & Hunting enough. I’m tempted to bring a sleeping bag and hide out.
The South overflows with a wealth of art galleries offering outdoor sporting art. The problem there is, you’ll want everything for sale. Again, you can learn a great deal. The proprietors usually forgive you and happily talk about the art, even knowing you’ll leave empty-handed. It’s a passion and therefore not subject to hag-ridden reason.
If I have neglected to thank anyone who helped, forgive me. Having to re-think the last quarter of the book due to the crisis prevented me from keeping good notes regarding research.
The Sister Jane series
Outfoxed
Hotspur
Full Cry
The Hunt Ball
The Hounds and the Fury
The Tell-Tale Horse
Hounded to Death
Fox Tracks
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
Crazy Like a Fox
Homeward Hound
Scarlet Fever
Out of Hounds Books by Rita Mae Brown with Sneaky Pie Brown
Wish You Were Here
Rest in Pieces
Murder at Monticello
Pay Dirt
Murder, She Meowed
Murder on the Prowl
Cat on the Scent
Sneaky Pie’s Cookbook for Mystery Lovers
Pawing Through the Past
Claws and Effect
Catch as Cat Can
The Tail of the Tip-Off
Whisker of Evil
Cat’s Eyewitness
Sour Puss
Puss ’n Cahoots
The Purrfect Murder
Santa Clawed
Cat of the Century
Hiss of Death
The Big Cat Nap
Sneaky Pie for President
The Litter of the Law
Nine Lives to Die
Tail Gate
Tall Tail
A Hiss Before Dying
Probable Claws
Whiskers in the Dark
Furmidable Foes The Nevada series
A Nose for Justice
Murder Unleashed Books by Rita Mae Brown
Animal Magnetism: My Life with Creatures Great and Small
The Hand That Cradles the Rock
Songs to a Handsome Woman
The Plain Brown Rapper
Rubyfruit Jungle
In Her Day
Six of One
Southern Discomfort
Sudden Death
High Hearts
Started from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writer’s Manual
Bingo
Venus Envy
Dolley: A Novel of Dolley Madison in Love and War
Riding Shotgun
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Loose Lips
Alma Mater
The Sand Castle
Cakewalk
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Rita Mae Brown is the bestselling author of the Sneaky Pie Brown series; the Sister Jane series; the Runnymede novels, including Six of One and Cakewalk; A Nose for Justice and Murder Unleashed; Rubyfruit Jungle; In Her Day; and many other books. An Emmy-nominated screenwriter and poet, Brown lives in Afton, Virginia, and is a Master of Foxhounds.
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