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Authors: Rita Mae Brown
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
R
ITA
M
AE
B
ROWN
is the bestselling author of (among others)
Rubyfruit Jungle, Six of One, Southern Discomfort, Outfoxed,
and a memoir,
Rita Will.
She also collaborates with her tiger cat, Sneaky Pie, on the
New York Times
bestselling Mrs. Murphy mystery series. An Emmy-nominated screenwriter and poet, she lives in Afton, Virginia. She is master and huntsman of the Oak Ridge Foxhunt Club and is one of the directors of Virginia Hunt Week. She is also Visiting Faculty at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
Books by Rita Mae Brown
with “Sister” Jane Arnold in the Outfoxed series
Outfoxed
Hotspur
Full Cry
The Hunt Ball
Books by Rita Mae Brown with Sneaky Pie Brown
Wish You Were Here
Rest In Pieces
Murder At Montecello
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 Effects
Catch as Cat Can
Cat’s Eyewitness
Sour Puss
Books by Rita Mae Brown
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
Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser
Loose Lips
Alma Mater
The Hounds and the Fury
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 © 2006 by American Artists, Inc.
Title page illustrations copyright © 2006 by Lee Gildea, Jr.
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
B
ALLANTINE
and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in Publication Data
Brown, Rita Mae.
The hounds and the fury : a novel/Rita Mae Brown.—1st ed.
p. cm.
1. Fox hunting—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3552.R698H63 2006
813'.54—dc22 2006042768
eISBN: 978-0-345-49543-3
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